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Blow-Up

Blow-Up

  • Status: Released
  • 18-12-1966
  • Runtime: 111 min
  • Score: 7.323
  • Vote count: 1327

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.

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)

Tsai Chin

Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited)

Susan Brodrick

Antique Shop Owner (uncredited)

Peggy Moffitt

Model (uncredited)

Melanie Hampshire

Model (uncredited)

Charlie Bird

Homeless Man (uncredited)

Robin Burns

Homeless Man (uncredited)

Julio Cortázar

Homeless Man (uncredited)

Chris Dreja

Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)

Lew Hooper

Pedestrian (uncredited)

Harry Hutchinson

Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Chas Lawther

Waiter (uncredited)

Dyson Lovell

Man Outside Restaurant (uncredited)

Jack Mandeville

Man with Poodle (uncredited)

Jim McCarty

Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)

Keith Relf

Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)

Ann Norman

Model (uncredited)

Ronan O'Casey

Jane's Lover in Park (uncredited)

Janet Street-Porter

Girl Dancing In Ricky Tick Club (uncredited)

Fred Wood

Homeless Man (uncredited)

Jill Kennington

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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 - and though fun, that's not really enough. He is in a park one evening when he espies a couple and takes some snaps. "Jane" (Vanessa redgrave) is not impressed and wants the negatives. He sees the chance to have some fun and so teases her, discovering not just that she is truly desperate to obtain them but also, on inspection of the images, that he has accidentally photographed a murder! Who did what to whom, why, and what he can get from a scenario that now has him tingling? Just what did happen and what does "Jane" have to do with anything? It's got a very vibrant, Bohemian, 1960s feel to it from start to finish and Hemmings is in his element as the rather unlikable, manipulative, playboy. Redgrave also comes across well as her character's vulnerability - though to what we don't yet know - is also well captured as the mystery deepens. The X rating is all about tits and bums. There's nothing gruesome or graphic here to terrorise the viewer, instead we get a thriller set amidst a world of hedonism and profligacy and whilst Redgrave comes across as a more reluctant visitor to this territory, Hemmings looks a natural. Yes, it's dated a little but the story itself still stands up to a watch.