SBIRTACCIO
7Jan12
Great rewiew...
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Daniel Montiel
26Jan12
A delicious film to look at but frankly all the existential and surreal touches hammer to death by the Swinging London context were overplayed and undercooked at the same time. I found Hemmings performance hypnotic when he was not talking.
Matthew Landry
2Jan12
Fashionable pessimism to the nth degree.Ennui in a tight suit,existential undertones,self-discovery,and subtle narrative. Made for mainstream audiences to feel like intellectuals, to pick apart and attach to various meanings. This film is good, great actually, but Antonioni could have done far, far better when working with what he was, and I disdain the fashionable London-in-the-60's context to rely and fall back on.
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Michael Convery
28Dec11
three fourths into the film I was scanning the obscure backgrounds for other murders.
Risya
4Nov11
A difficult film to grasp, the kind that arrived nowhere veeery slowly. Confusing and disjointed, no atmosphere or ambiance. And I have absolutely no emotional attachment to the protagonist. I was never involved enough in it to actually care. To me, this film remains shallow and unsatisfying. Whatever impact this film had on the positive audience does not apply on me.
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Nathan Deming
22Oct11
Interesting. Not sure if it's my favorite Antonioni, but I enjoyed it. What a lame review I'm giving.
livedo
12Sep11
Really unlikable boorish main character , really slow and uneven pace, absolutely no explanation or resolution for the main problem, ah I don't know what to say. There are some beautiful shots like the park scene, the veruschka photoshoot act but I just don't know. I kept browsing my internet the entire time I was watching this to be honest.
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Wes Shepherd
12Sep11
I first saw this movie when I was a kid, maybe 13. I'd been shooting since I could thieve my dad's camera (a box brownie) and afford film. Hemming's character is not at all sympathetic but the potential that living the life of a photographer held seemed amazing. I was inspired to start my own photography business by this film, and although it doesn't pay the bills, it's still a way to express my creativity.
Ben Wheeler
29Aug11
A friend of mine popped this movie in one night. I wasn't quite prepared, as this was my first Antonioni experience and I knew nothing of the man. As with my first Bergman viewing, I had nothing to compare it to. I had to chew on it for a few days, and, of course, it nagged at me growing into an inexplicable affection. L'Avventura and Red Desert followed, sealing Antonioni as one of my favorites.
Natalie Guevara
29Jul11
my least favorite Antonioni: too much about the boredom it becomes boring, but I think M.A. was just trying to do Hitchcock, his way. I felt restless watching this and very, very hot. the atmosphere of a thriller without the satisfaction of a tingling release. I did not relate to all the bony frames in the movie & the main character's obvious contempt for women.
Harry Rossi
24Jul11
While watching it I felt as if the director had no idea what he was doing. However once it ended I felt as if something profound had happened to me. I'll still have to think this one over but as of right now I'm gonna give it 4/5.
WhatsUpWill
21Jul11
I'm going to have to revisit this sometime within this or next year. An interesting observation on a time, setting, and place. To me, it's a film about the failures of youth and the misconceptions of art and the artist.
Sudipto Basu
1Jul11
http://sudiptopondering.blogspot.com/2011/07/blowup-how-close-can-you-get-to-subject.html - Would have posted as a review, but it's full of screenshots and videos (which I don't know to embed in MUBI). :|
Sudipto Basu
1Jul11
The only Antonioni film I feel positively excited about! (I like The Passenger, though in a distant way.) The way it subverts cinematic language is excellent - the extreme close up makes the object disintegrate, and the reaction shot misleads.
Telly Pavlogianis
17Jun11
The scene in which Antonioni creates suspense by way of Hemmings hanging up and examining photos is unreal. It's unlikely, and so eerie, which only makes it more unlikely.
Border Radio
7Jun11
Antonioni at the peak of his powers. The closing metaphor is a bit heavyhanded but whatever.
Publius
11May11
Admittedly I did fall asleep around the 30 minute mark. But then I woke up, rewound, and watched the rest, which I enjoyed. I 'get' it, most of it anyway. Hemmings is perhaps the most bored, distracted protagonist I've ever seen, but it is interesting to watch rather than banal, and that's not just because of his sweet jacket and boyish good looks.
Sue Denim
25Apr11
It seeps boredom which was extremely intereszing to watch. Also, there was some breathtaking imagery, esp in tHe first and last part. Tehnically flawless, it failed to engage me emotionally although I would arge that emotional entanglement is neither what the film's about nor what the direcor wanted to create in the viewer. What I hated, though and what ruined the experience for me, is the omnipresent sexism.