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"Veruschka von Lehndorff - Herself"
Blow-UpThe natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience — Blow-Up
"The natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience is deployed against convention. If youve never seen Blow-Up, see it now, if only to see what part of the world was like 40 years ago."
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Blowup is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Model Veruschka von Lehndorff is featured as herself, and Jane Birkin makes her first film appearance. The film's non-die
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