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Blow-Up

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Blow-Up is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, a co-production of the United Kingdom and Italy. It follows a fashion photographer in Swinging London who believes he has photographed evidence of a murder in a park and, enlarging his photographs for proof, finds the truth of what he saw growing more uncertain. Its explicit content defied the Production Code of the Hollywood studios, and its success is credited with contributing to the end of that Code in 1968; the film won the Palme d'Or at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.

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Original Language
English 1
Award
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film 1
Release Year
1966 2
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1. Wikipedia
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Category:National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film winners
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2. Blowup (Wikipedia)
  • Article lead sentence
    Blowup (also styled Blow-Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti.
  • Blow-Up, lead paragraph (Wikipedia), original language
    It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles.
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