There was absolutely no subtlety anywhere in this entire film. Jared Leto’s portrayal of Paolo Gucci was an over-the-top inauthentic impersonation.
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Instead I kept thinking, “Why are they all talking like this?” Poor Adam Driver looks like he smelled something really bad during the entire movie. As an audience member, I should have been engrossed in the story. Ridley Scott does his film a huge disservice by allowing British and American actors to do really bad Italian accents throughout the film. Watching House of Gucci is like experiencing a really long Saturday Night Live sketch. Every single character is a broadly written stereotype. The script is as bad as a 1990s Lifetime made-for-TV movie. The film is inspired by the 2001 book House of Gucci : A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed by Sara Gay Forden but has very little substance. Screenwriters Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivenga miss the mark entirely with this film. Once Maurizio accepts his uncle’s offer, the story to his murder unfolds. In New York City, Maurizio’s uncle Aldo (Al Pacino) sees photos of the wedding in a magazine and high-tails it back to Italy to see his brother Rodolfo in order to get Maurizio back into the family business. Maurizio works for Patrizia’s father in the trucking business and the happy couple marry.
Totally smitten, Maurizio chooses love and is disowned. Rodolfo threatens to disown Maurizio if he continues the relationship with Patrizia. Their courtship is sweet, but when Maurizio introduces Patrizia to his father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons), he disapproves of the relationship because he believes Patrizia is only after the financial and social status of the Gucci name. She engineers her way into a date with Maurizio after stalking him at the library.
It seems like love at first sight, for Patrizia. The film begins in 1978 with young Patrizia (Lady Gaga) an accountant at her father’s trucking company randomly meeting Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) at a party. However, as a legitimate biographical film drama, House of Gucci falls short and is unintentional camp.
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With its grandiose acting style, dialogue-driven action, and melodramatic music, this movie will be adored by Lady Gaga fans all over the globe. If there was a big budget feature film of the 1980s original night time soap opera Dynasty with A-list actors, House of Gucci would be it. Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is a two hour and thirty-eight minute depiction of the rise and fall of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani’s relationship. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci was murdered by a hitman hired by his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani.
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