Blow Up - 1966

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

Originally Folded: Linen Backed

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Size: 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm)

An original British Quad poster for the 1966 release of “Blow-Up”, the poster has recently been professionally cleaned before being placed on linen.  

A psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Model Veruschka von Lehndorff is featured as herself, and Jane Birkin makes her first film appearance.

In the 60s, in London, Thomas is a successful, dedicated and arrogant photographer. He has just left a homeless shelter, since he is preparing photos about violence, and drives his Rolls-Royce to his studio, where he is taking pictures of top models. He goes to a park and starts randomly shooting pictures, taking various pictures of a young woman and an old man together; the woman then tries to retrieve the negative, she follows him to his studio, even offering sex with him for the negative. He becomes obsessed, trying to understand the interest of the woman in the pictures. Then he reveals the negative and blows-up some details, discovering what might be a dead body in the park.

"Sometimes reality is the strangest fantasy of all"

Tags: 1960s British Quad Thriller Mystery Drama Action Crime