As chic and stylish as the eponymous hat,"Borsalino" is a hugely enjoyable exercise in post - modern - irony many years before that genre was actually invented.It features two of French Cinema's most iconic male actors guying their movie personas very amiably,wearing great suits and exhibiting that deadly combination of charm and danger that sets many a woman (and not a few men) a - tremble. It is so essentially Gallic you can almost smell the croissants,coffee and "Gitanes". The boys smoke and drink with innocent enjoyment,tote their gats with huge panache and altogether have a hell of a time. Their more "serious" movies are lauded by critics,"Borsalino" often dismissed as makeweight - a pot - boiler.Anybody who thinks that has no idea how hard good comedy is. This is a near - perfect movie.The score by pianist/composer Claude Bolling is exactly fittling. If you fell asleep watching some "nouvelle vague" classic about a miserable rat - faced hero wandering the wet pavements of Paris looking for something he'll never find,"Borsalino" will restore your dormant love of le styl Francais.
Review of Borsalino
