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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...
...unlike the other characters in Blow-Up, the photographer is not among the living dead in Antonioni's sterile London. Antonioni's photographer is in limbo, precariously balanced on the borderline between submergence in the frenzied non-involvement around him, and commitment to reality. Essentially weak, he inevitably succumbs to the daily temptations of his life and profession. For example, in the middle of examining the most important pictures he has ever taken, he allows himself to take part in a mini-orgy with two teen-age would-be models; on his way to the scene of the crime...
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...