Any fans of cinema, photography or indeed voyeurism will surely hold Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 masterpiece Blow Up in very high esteem; and the sublimely elegant aesthetic of his films (and of course, the beauty of his actors) means that pretty much each and every frame makes for a stunning still. For the uninitiated, the film takes a diurnal journal into the life of a typical Swinging Sixties London fashion photographer, whose glamorously carefree life gets sidetracked by a mysterious (and perhaps rather chilling) encounter with a woman in a park. Blow Up is among the Antonioni films currently being screened in a season dedicated to the director at the BFI Southbank in London, running until 27 February.
