“Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all.”
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Carlo Ponti
Michelangelo Antonioni
Tonino Guerra
Carlo Di Palma
Herbie Hancock
David Hemmings
Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave
Jane
Sarah Miles
Patricia
John Castle
Bill
Veruschka von Lehndorff
Veruschka
Jane Birkin
The Blonde
Gillian Hills
The Brunette
Peter Bowles
Ron
Julian Chagrin
Mime
Claude Chagrin
Mime
Jimmy Page
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
Jeff Beck
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
... and 20 more
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Judging by his Rolls Royce coupé that he tours London in, the young "Thomas" (David Hemmings) is a successful man. He makes his living as a photographer amongst the great and the good of the vacuous world of fame and celebrity. Drink, drugs and sex are wherever he wants them, whenever he wants them ...
Blow Up (1966) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Trailer • YouTube
David Hemmings on BLOW-UP
Featurette • YouTube
Bridge Films
Carlo Ponti Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer