Breakfast at Tiffany's, the sexual revolution in the cinema
Half a century ago, came out in theaters one of the milestones in the history of femininity: Breakfast at Tiffany's. This is one of the most important films to change the image of women on the big screen that has remedied an oblivion of nearly thirty years'. The female figures in the cinema have long been controlled and manipulated by big censors, supported by political parties, religious associations and leagues conservative.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, along with a handful of other films, has in fact marked a cultural revolution in the history of American cinema, and literally transformed the image of women on the big screen.
Holly Golightly, the protagonist of the film by Blake Edwards and Truman Capote's novel that inspired it, was in fact one of the first 'Women in Hollywood' to live far from a sexual puritan morality that was starting to collapse in the early sixties, when the public was searching for the reality rather than just 'dreams'.
Accomplices innate charm and elegance of Audrey Hepburn, star of the film came out in '61, this film has entered history and devoted to the iconic actress of our time, able to inspire every woman.