Word: antonioni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned-on, hip, or any of the other catch phrases of this label-happy era--asserted itself by establishing a new standard of moral behavior. The process obviously involved redefinition: in the '30's, photographer meant Stieglitz, Steichen, Dorothea Lange; now photographer means cool. But Michaelangelo Antonioni has other ideas...
...Antonioni is intensely serious about life and about art. His new film, Blow-Up, deals with the difficulty of commitment to a worthwhile life through art. Antonioni's fashion photographer hero, a 25-year-old dissipated cherub brilliantly played by David Hemmings, has learned how to ride the crest of the mod culture wave; he got rich quick, drives a Rolls, and takes sex and marijuana with the casual detachment that marks him and his kind. He seems, as Time describes, "a little fungus that is apt to grow in a decaying society...
BLOWUP. A photographer escapes his mod models for an afternoon and wanders after a pair of bucolic lovers, whom he snaps on the sly. In a brilliant episode back in the darkroom, he develops his film and his dilemma. Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni records the London scene-and some things that are not seen-in his first English film...
BLOWUP. A young, successful pop photographer casually takes some pictures of an amorous couple strolling in the park, and against his will is drawn into a mystery that totally absorbs and challenges him. The director is Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni, filming for the first time in England and in English...
BLOWUP. For his first English-language film, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni develops a closeup of a young, successful pop photographer who accidentally records a murder while snapping candids around London. Though all the elements for an ingenious thriller are at hand, Antonioni underplays the whodunit and focuses instead on his characteristic concern: the gap between seeing and feeling...