There are no current Madrid showtimes for Blowup (1966), but this page keeps the local screening history because it has already screened at Artistic Metropol.
If it returns to Madrid screens, new dates will appear here. The most recent tracked screenings were for Thu 9 Jul.
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Synopsis
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Awards and festivals
1966National Society of Film Critics AwardsBest Picture
1966National Society of Film Critics AwardsBest Director — Michelangelo Antonioni
1967Academy AwardsWriting (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) — Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond · nominated
1967Cannes Film Festival · In CompetitionGrand Prix du Festival International du Film — Michelangelo Antonioni
1967Golden Globe AwardsBest English-Language Foreign Film · nominated
1967Syndicat français de la critique de cinémaPrix du meilleur film étranger
1968British Academy Film AwardsBest Cinematography, Colour — Carlo Di Palma · nominated
1968British Academy Film AwardsBest British Film · nominated
1968British Academy Film AwardsBest Art Direction, Colour — Assheton Gorton · nominated
1968Nastri d'argentoRegista del miglior film straniero — Michelangelo Antonioni
2004Cannes Film Festival · Cannes Classics - Tributeselected
Places
Set in Swinging London, 1966
Filmed at London, England — Most of the film was shot on location throughout London.
Maryon Park, London, England — Park scenes, including Thomas photographing the couple and the later returns to the park.
The Economist Building / Economist Plaza, St James's Street, London, England — Opening Rag Week/student sequence filmed around the brutalist Economist Plaza.
MGM-British Studios, Elstree, Borehamwood, England — Yardbirds nightclub scene filmed in a reconstruction of the Ricky-Tick club.
39 Princes Place, Notting Hill, London, England — John Cowan's studio, leased to Antonioni for much interior and exterior filming according to the Wikipedia production summary.
Heddon Street, London, England — Additional London filming location listed in the production summary.
Cheyne Walk, London, England — Additional London filming location listed in the production summary.
fashion mediaAmateur investigationartist portraitcreative ambitionclassical repertorycult repertoryadaptation and reinventiongender roles and patriarchydesire and jealousyrock performance
Tone and style
film-club argument starter1960s London time capsuleSlow & contemplativepsychological dramaUnsettlingcinephile deep cutMind-benderSparse dialogueliterary adaptation
