Cinema according to Borsalino

Sometimes the right hat is enough to create a diva or a hero. Is called The cinema with the hat. Borsalino and other stories, the Triennale exhibition in Milan, which tells the pairing between cinema and headgear par excellence. Photographs, installations e frame which show the suggestive power of an "icon not only of elegance, but also of seductive power, of the construction of identity, of the author's touch."

Curated by the critic Gianni Canova, the exhibition leaves room for movements and images: from the "Scappellamenti d" author ", that is the cinematographic scenes in which the gesture is the protagonist (comic, mysterious or reverential), to the carousel of names (Basque, helmet, flat cap, bowler hat, felucca, fur hat ...), to the large multimedia cylinder that illustrates the role of a "simple" accessory in defining a character. But above all the icons of great cinema speak: from Audrey Hepburn in My fair Lady to Jean Seberg in Until the last breath, up to Alain Delon and Jean Paul Belmondo, gangsters in Marseille in the 1930s, who starred in two films that wore hats right down to the title: Borsalino And Borsalino & co, both by Jacques Deray. Chapeau.

Until March 20, Triennale di Milano, free admission.

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If Borsalino makes life "sweeter"

The combination of cinema and hat emphasized by a "pairing among the most evocative of cinema ever. Federico Fellini who arranges a classic Borsalino on the perfect profile of Marcello Mastroianni, photographed by another image thief par excellence, the one who, precisely following Fellini, framed the Dolce Vita for posterity: Tazio Secchiaroli.

from Nanà Sirami