FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE 'Michelangelo Antonioni - Blowup 

Who would still be interested in a "hipster" photographer who may witness a murder (or not?????), leads an empty cynical life and ends up somewhere in the park while watching the students play tennis without a ball at dusk? Answer: Everyone! Who didn't want to play back to the 60s Swinging London when the Yardbirds were in some basement bar? This is the time of Michelangelo Antonionis Blowup! We should get his movie out of all the hype and fashion. Sometimes Blowup threatens to degenerate under this ballast. Let us surrender to the magic, even the spell of this work! Antonioni has made a suspense thriller, but without giving us the resolution, the reward. Blowup plays in the middle of London, in the heartless fashion world with its groupies, rock concerts and parties. In the center, an anti-hero whose soul had long since died - but which is now being resurrected by his art. His name is Thomas and he is played by David Hemmings. Thomas, the fashion photographer with the Beatles haircut in his Rolls, who is used to "Birds" knocking on his studio to portray them. Once we notice how much he thirsts for a spiritual love when he sees his neighbor (Sarah Miles). But that is not available for Thomas. So he keeps spending time with the models. But when Thomas goes for a walk in the park one day, everything changes. He watches a man and a woman (Vanessa Redgrave). Are they fighting? Are they flirting? The woman is chasing Thomas, who photographed her. Desperately she wants his film back, even invades the studio to steal it. Later Thomas enlarges exactly this film: Blowup. He notices that he's probably photographed a murder. Antonioni shows the pictures, then again the photographer. He jumps back and forth. We see arrangements of light and shadow that show us... Yeah, what is it? Thomas is interrupted at this moment by two "Birds", two girls who force their sex game on him. Then he returns to his magnifications. He makes even more prints and Thomas recognizes, as the woman looks forward, into the bushes. It shows (????) a man with a revolver. And maybe we see this man lying on the floor. Or maybe not. Thomas pulls it back into the park and there he SEES the man lying on the floor. Why you read so often, he wouldn't be sure of it, I don't understand. Thomas SEE the man. It remains unclear, however, whether this is a murder. Maybe the woman just wants the pictures because she's hiding an affair? But it doesn't really matter if it's a murder. This is about a creep developing a mission through his art. He is not interested in money, his ambitions or even his mistakes in character. No, he is completely lost in his craft. And that makes him happy. Later, however, all this will be taken away from him again. The body is gone, just as his photos have disappeared. The woman has also disappeared (we notice her outside a club before she vanishes into thin air). The Fianle is like the beginning. Thomas sees again the students we met in the first scene of Blowup. They play tennis with an imaginary ball. The photographer pretends to see the ball. We can even hear him! Then the photographer disappears into the park, changes from one picture to the next and is finally gone. So is the body.