A mod london photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park. It was widely noted at the time for its setting in the counterculture of the united states. Some of the films scenes were shot on location at zabriskie point in death valley. This change from female to male protagonist in antonionis work is accompanied by a change from a subjective camera and narration to an objective camera and narrative. The movie looks like it could have been filmed this year and i say this having seen the last two woody allen efforts set in london.
Featuring a tourdeforce performance by nicholson, the passenger won the bodil award in 1976 for best european film and was nominated for the golden palm at the 1975 cannes fi the passenger is one of those movies that is all about the vision of the director, in this case, screen legend michelangelo antonioni. Equally amazing is that blowup came out just a year after roman polanskis blackandwhite classic. Michelangelo antonionis leclisse a broken piece of. It was antonionis first entirely englishlanguage film, and stars david hemmings as a london fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. Michelangelo antonioni en 5 minutes blow up arte youtube. Thomas david hemmings lebt im london des jahres 1966.
Architecture in the films of michelangelo antonioni. Reminiscent of an early plans of antonionis blowup where we see david hemmings who go out of a flophouse and approaching a rolls that prove to be his. See more ideas about michelangelo antonioni, david hemmings and blow up movie. But to get an idea of how antonionis style began to take shape, id suggest starting at the beginning with his debut story of a love affair 1950. Blow up looks back to zapruder but also ahead to watergate and a run of films that riffed in a similar manner to antonioni, with his inquiring, coldeyed lens.
See more ideas about michelangelo antonioni, film stills and cinema. With david hemmings, vanessa redgrave, sarah miles, john castle. Blow up set tennis court maryon park 1966 2006 michelangelo antonionis movie blow up location fourty years later. Le groupe pop qui joue dans le club est the yardbirds avec jimmy page et jeff beck. Michelangelo antonioni was born in 1912 into a middleclass family and grew up in bourgeois surroundings of the italian province. Two of the giants of filmacting come together as a married couple living in crisis. Il parco dove fu girato il film di michelangelo antonioni blow up quarantanni dopo. Antonioni, 1966 was antonionis first film that focused on an exploration of gender issues of a principal male character, rather than a female one. It was the opening salvo of the emerging film generation, which quickly lined up outside bonnie and clyde, weekend 1968, the battle of algiers, easy rider and five easy pieces.
Dvd of michelangelo antonionis blowup is amazingly crisp. Antonioni declares that the scene in blowup of the teenyboppers was meant to be an innocent romp, not made so as to get by the censors of december, 1966, and that those film critics who saw it as an orgy or sexual encounter were seeing what is not there. The film was an overwhelming commercial failure, and was. Colonel klink almost blows up stalag hogans heroes 1966. The real blow up sixties film documentary part1 duration. A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the mans materialistic nature. Michelangelo antonionis blowup opened in america two months before i became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence. Exquisitely shot and simmering with unease, michelangelo antonios blowup is an enigma that invites audiences to luxuriate in the sensual atmosphere of 1960s london chic. The temptation would be to plunge straight into the famous alienation tetralogy, or the englishlanguage features blowup, zabriskie point 1970 and the passenger 1975. David hemmings and jane birkin in michelangelo antonionis blowup. Examined from a craneshot, its a sprawling study of italys upper middleclass. With monica vitti, alain delon, francisco rabal, lilla brignone.