Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni · 1966 CE · Film · Italian · Contemporary

A fashion photographer spends a London morning buying junk in an antique shop and drifting into a quiet park, where he shoots a couple among the trees from behind a fence. The woman follows him to his studio and demands the roll; he prints the frames, enlarges them, and pins the sequence up until a shape starts to come out of the grass. Antonioni's first film in English took the Palme d'Or and made the act of enlargement itself the subject.

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Lineage

• adapts ↑ Blow-Up
  Julio Cortázar · 1959 CE · Short Story
• ↓ Blow Out
  Brian De Palma · 1981 CE · Film — reworks this

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  Brian De Palma · 1981 CE · Film

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