Blow Up

L'immagine che appare sulla copertina di questa stupenda edizione del capolavoro di Antonioni e`quella della versione principale del poster cinematografico. Ottima la qualita`video della pellicola; traccia audio disponibile in Inglese, Italiano e Francese (quella inglese e`la piu`affidabile, con una gamma maggiore di lingue accesibili nei sottotitoli). I contenuti extra del menu`sono due fantastici trailers del film, un commento audio del critico Peter Brunette e una versione del film accompagnata ad intermittenza da alcuni temi musicali Lounge tratti dalla colonna sonora di BLOW-UP.
Inserita all'interno di una cornice estetica immersa nel mondo della moda della swinging London della seconda meta` degli anni 60, la storia del film ha per protagoniste le avventure di un talentuoso fotografo (David Hemmings) alle prese con un inatteso rebus da risolvere.....
Attraverso uno stile narrativo personalissimo e una composizione del suono e delle immagini che non lascia nulla al caso, il genio artistico di Michelangelo Antonioni rende BLOW-UP una delle creazioni piu`belle, affascinanti e misteriose della storia del Cinema (la scena in cui Mark scansiona gli ingrandimenti delle fotografie ha una forza evocativa devastante..)...Grazie alla sua capacita`di sapere bucare lo schermo e stimolare la mente di chi guarda come solo poche pellicole sono in grado di fare, BLOW-UP e`molto piu`di un film....UNA VERA E PROPRIA OPERA D'ARTE.

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mambor

un classico

Recensito in Italia il 31 dicembre 2023

assolutamente da avere nella propria cineteca. ottimo per amanti della fotografia

Se sei un fotografo devi vederlo!!! (non è in italiano, solo sottotitoli)

Mic78it

Recensito in Italia il 28 maggio 2023

Film assolutamente da vedere, anche se non si è fotografi.
Solo in lingua originale, ma ci sono i sottotitoli e soprattutto parlano poco, quindi si segue senza grossi problemi.

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Giuseppe Guastella - StudioMASP

eccellente

Recensito in Italia il 4 marzo 2018

Un film per amatori; presenta uno spaccato della dolce vita londinese. E' stato interessante capire come in passato di vedeva la figura di un fotografo professionista impegnato.

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Must have per tutti gli appassionati di fotografia

Emanuele Delle Fave

Recensito in Italia il 17 settembre 2022

Titolo da avere sicuramente se siete appassionati di fotografia.
Storia intrigante e perfetto spaccato di quel periodo

Recensito in Italia il 6 dicembre 2022

cult, assolutamente da vedere

Recensito in Italia il 24 giugno 2017

Un capolavoro che non avrebbe bisogno di ulteriori lodi. Anche se appartiene a un glorioso passato, è un film che a tutt'oggi può essere visto con assoluta godibilità. Bravi gli interpreti, ma soprattutto un'eccellente regìa che sa scavare in profondità nei processi di formazione dell'immagine, materia prima di ogni film. E se puoi credere che un'indistinta macchia sia il piede di un cadavere, allora puoi anche raccattare la pallina da tennis che, apparentemente, non esiste. Ma solo perché non la si vuol vedere.

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Non noleggeró più film quì

Francesco

Recensito in Italia il 17 maggio 2023

In inglese e non era stato specificato.

Stop con noleggi

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Philippe Redeler

ras

Recensito in Francia il 18 marzo 2024

Conforme à mes attentes

Knäcki

Suspense analog in Swinging London

Recensito in Germania il 20 agosto 2023

Aus heutiger Sicht ist der Film sicher etwas zu langsam, aber das ist gerade sein Reiz.
Er beschreibt einzigartig die Atmosphäre der "Swinging Sixties" in London
und mit der unvergesslichen Jane Birkin verschwand diese Zeit nun noch mehr in der Geschichte.
Besonders faszinierend: das Rauschen der Bäume in dem magisch seltsamen Park mit dem
seltsamen Paar ist hier die "Filmmusik". Zeitlos sehenswert!
Für Musikfreaks: die Yardbirds haben hier einen denkwürdigen Auftritt mit den ganz jungen
Jimmy Page und Jeff Beck. Mega!

Gary Fuhrman

Soundtrack review

Recensito in Canada il 15 aprile 2011

This is one of those films in which every detail contributes to the total effect, and contributes more on repeated viewings. This is especially true of the soundtrack -- and seeing many warnings among these reviews of poor audio quality, i hesitated for years to buy this DVD, although it's the only version available of one of the great films of its time (or any time, in my opinion). Well, it's true that the level of the soundtrack is exceptionally low: you have to crank up the volume at least 10db above the usual to hear it properly. But if your sound system can handle that without introducing noise of its own, then the sound is there in all its subtle glory (or its raucous glory in the scene with the Yardbirds performing "Stroll On"). The sound quality is especially crucial in the scenes in the park -- and the blowing-up sequence in the photographer's studio, where the audible sound of the wind in the trees adds a hair-raising effect.

I have also seen reviews claiming that cuts have been made in the film. I saw it in theatres several times back in 1966 or 67 -- this is one of a mere handful of films that i have seen several times in the theatre -- and the version on this DVD is exactly as i remember it, nothing missing. There's nothing wrong with the picture quality in this Antonioni masterpiece either. I won't repeat here what many reviewers have said about why this is a great film, but i will emphasize that the DVD is a good buy IF you have a decent sound system to play your movies through.

Doreen Appleton

Grim vision, beautiful images

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 settembre 2007

Someone changed the title music, to begin with. If you leave the menu on your screen and listen, you will hear the original title music, a brief rock interlude followed by a wistful jazz piano. The strident, cacaphonous trumpet you hear under the titles is the wrong music.

If Blowup looks and feels different from the four Antonioni films that preceded it, one reason may be that Antonioni used an English editor, Frank Clarke (uncredited). The pace of the movie is far faster than what a viewer of L'Eclisse or La Notte would expect.

In many scenes there are sudden, apparently pointless cuts. These are inserted to give the movie a more nervous look than we expect from Antonioni. Perhaps, knowing he was making his first mystery, Antonioni planned this new style with his editor.

There are other mannerisms, not unique to this film, that are always interesting. The camera follows a receding car for some distance, then slows down and lets the car get further away.

A burst of music will suddenly be heard, and just as suddenly fade away. In the studio this seems to signify the photographer's preoccupation with the photos, causing him to forget the music.

-- Critics and the public are correct in viewing Antonioni as a dark pessimist about human nature. He sees us as sadly unequipped for the challenges of reality, relationships, moral judgment, etc. The theme of the movie is how easily the photographer is distracted from the serious business at hand, i.e. the apparent murder captured by his camera. He is no match for the reality before him, and drifts from one diversion to the next. The wonderful scene of the Yardbirds playing to a catatonic audience, and our hero coming away with the worthless trophy, sums up the director's view of him.

But the key scene of the movie is when the photographer, suspecting the murder, leaves his studio without his camera, finds the body in the park, can't photograph it, and returns to the studio to find that all the prints and negatives of the event have been stolen in his absence. One false step and everything is lost. The record of the reality, and perhaps the reality itself.

Antonioni invited the debate about whether anything at all happened -- the murder, the photographs, the scene in the park, etc. -- by having the imaginary tennis ball at the end of the film begin to make plocking noises, and by having the photographer disappear. Why Antonioni called this moment his "signature" is a mystery to me. Possibly to bring more people into the theaters.

The scene in the park is a classic of form and color and movement. Nothing like it has been done before or since. If you turn the volume up on your TV during this scene, you will realize that the trees and bushes, being blown by the wind, are definite conspirators in what is happening to the man and woman. Similarly, in the final scene, the sky has turned grey and the trees and bushes seem to mock the photographer who has returned to the scene of his greatest failure.

I had to watch the movie 50 times before I realized that the killer behind the fence is the grassy knoll assassin in Dallas. The movie was made three years after the Kennedy assassination.

The scenes in the studio, discovering the truth hidden in the photos, have been much imitated. They are wonderful, breathless, dramatic.

Today the question of reality seems far less pertinent than the shallowness of the photographer [who may also be the artist, according to some] and his inability to confront the real in an adult, responsible way. But it can be argued that if human perception is so skewed by selfish concerns and shallow desires, the human race never really perceives a real world at all. Only the next pleasure, the next gratification, the next need or project. The human world we see around us, colored by war, famine, violence, and the colossal indifference of man to his fellow man, may be a world built by creatures who do not have a reality. Only a stubborn need to be safe, to be blind. Possibly this is the sense of those last troubling images.

Incidentally, I saw the movie four or five times in the theater, and I saw no scenes that have been deleted, as the reviewer above claims. As far as I can remember, the movie is completely intact in this DVD.

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NZONZI

Excellent

Recensito in Francia il 25 agosto 2023

Produit de qualité en images et son.
Envoi rapide et un emballage parfait.
Merci et à bientôt

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