Part of Music City Mondays
Michelangelo Antonioni blew through London’s Swinging ‘60s with this stylish study of paranoid intrigue concerning a fashion photographer who may or may not have discovered a murder after photographing two lovers in a park. David Hemmings plays the jaded photographer enlivened by the mystery in his photos, Vanessa Redgrave is the elusive woman pictured in them, and the enigma of what the camera sees is yours to solve. A young Herbie Hancock contributed the bulk of the score, with assistance from some of the era’s key collaborators — Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette among them — evoking the ambience of swinging London with grooves that create effective bluesy moods on the slow pieces, and funky ones on the up-tempo tracks. The Yardbirds also make a rare on-screen appearance.
