Blow Up



Tuesday, December 18th 2007, 8:00 pm

Blow Up

(Michelangelo Antonioni, UK/Italy 1966, 111 min., 35mm)

Fashion photographer David Hemmings strolls through a London park for a few snapshots, but his images of a lovers’ lunchtime tryst may also offer clues to a murder. Perhaps the ultimate statement on fear and alienation in the big city, Antonioni’s international box office smash was a taboo breaker in terms of full-frontal nudity. It’s also a gripping existential mystery.