An Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie) (1928)

👒 ➡️ LOL The conflicts caused by a straw hat and the laughter caused by simple tasks. A wedding that almost goes wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👒 ➡️ LOL Los conflictos que provoca un sombrero de paja y las risas que…

Pelusa (JF) 🇵🇪

Is there anything more tedious than a leaden farce? Certainly doesn't hold a candle to the best of René Clair's silent work as, too often, its genesis as a talky play shows through. However, there are a number of truly inventive, quasi-surrealist moments in the film's…

teamgal

On the eve of his wedding a groom gets entangled in the affairs of a belligerent army officer when his horse eats the hat of the officer's married lover. The quest to replace the hat and save her honour spirals out of control. A good 25 minutes too long there is still a…

Owen

THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT runs long for a silent comedy, but it is still a delightful gem! Director René Clair reawakens the long-sleeping French farce filled with confrontations, misunderstandings, repeated visual gags with new set-up variations, and ... most amazingly of all…

Jim Dooley

Stepping gingerly through the cross-purposes endemic to farce. Eloquent reconstruction of the Belle Epoque, just over a quarter-century from when the film was made. Some grand conceits & passages, the dance esp. But this fell oddly flat for me. Rene Clair is, perhaps, my…

MarekWaldorf

Director Rene Clair, adapting and updating an 1851 play by Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, established his bona fides with this light-hearted take on bourgeois decorum and romantic intrigue. As such,"The Italian Straw Hat" is typical if not definitive: sound would…

Mario Naves

Watched as part of my inconsistently ongoing Olga Tschechowa brainrot this year and I absolutely loved this one. The run time may be a bit dragged here and there but I feel that sort of makes you wait impatiently with the characters. So I didn’t mind it much. Overall just…

Victoria

Did not find this funny or charming at all, just an absolute slog with a premise that, even grading on a curve for a farce, felt completely stupid. It’s a comedy of manners for an era that’s intangible; maybe people in 1928 understood why a woman in 1895 could not return…

James Henry

A bridegroom has trouble celebrating his wedding day as he must find a replacement Italian straw hat. Rene Clair's comedy of manners farce is full of Gaelic charm and wit, but mostly it reminded me of a feature length Charlie Chase short with its ever escalating series of…

Jumpingfrog