The director Michelangelo Antonioni shoots his second color film in English on London locations. The film's plot of a photographer attempting to solve a murder through a series of pictures he has taken and blown up has been ripped off by many movies. However this film still retains it's freshness through Antonioni's impressive technique.
Antonioni was a director who specialized in studies of urban alienation. He was always a director who could easily slide into overblown pretentious art film stuff and Blow Up certainly has it's moments of that stuff. Frankly I could have done without the the scenes with the mimes but overall this is a very engrossing film.
A lot of critics spent a lot of time trying to figure out if the murder mystery actually occurred or was a product of the photographer's imagination, but it seems fairly obvious that the murder did happen after all he does find a body. Certainly the scenes of the photographer putting the pieces together are extremely well done.
An impressive film.
119 minutes
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