ITALY · 1966

Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian Neorealism voyeurism reality vs. perception alienation murder mystery mod culture
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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.

Year1966
CountryItaly
DirectorMichelangelo Antonioni
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