Antonioni’s London in Blow-up

Antonioni’s London in Blow-up  is exciting, artistic, inclusive, open-minded and a bit queer. It’s  full of different kinds of people but with an accent on youth, photography, music, art and fashion. It values old things. Grey cement blocks and old red-brick buildings are the backdrop to new and exciting ways of being with new, more open-minded attitudes to sex that are still anchored in ages-old sexism and in which the pull of a certain kind of realism  is over-ridden by a clash of modernist impulses, conveyed graphically. It’s a place of unsolved murders where mimes cavort, justice is sought,  but alienation dominates, albeit in green spaces. Why do I think this? See below:

 

 

 

José Arroyo