![]() (Eventually, Tom Ford arrives on the scene in 1995 to revive its fortunes.) But she liked shiny things – very much – and soon enough Patrizia would wrangle their way back in, becoming embroiled in the business affairs of a then-dying luxury goods house. Severely outclassed and repeatedly underestimated, the perennially gaudy Patrizia married Maurizio, who defied his feuding family to be with her. Scott’s film, taken from the non-fiction book by The New York Times reporter Sarah Gay Horden, starts on that very day and tracks back – to when Maurizio Gucci (Driver), the pampered, timid son of the patrician Rodolfo (Irons) and grandson of the House of Gucci’s founder Guccio Gucci, first met Patrizia, step-daughter of a man who ran a large trucking company. ![]() Anyone can google the name and find out what happened to Patrizia Reggiani, but if audiences don’t remember what took place in Milan on the morning of March 27, 1995, House Of Gucci will certainly play better. She takes the character of Patrizia seriously: every inflection, every gesture, every minute she is on screen, and the effect ranges from funny to pure pathos. Lady Gaga, or Stefani Germanotta, the Italian-American performer nominated for her performance in 2018’s A Star Is Born, proves that role was no flash in the pan here. Lured by the cast, which also includes an unrecognisable Jared Leto, a terrific Al Pacino, and a especially-languid Jeremy Irons, self-selecting audiences ( Halston fans, etc) should respond positively, even at an over-long 157 minutes – although as everything here is more-more-more, there’s no reason why the running time shouldn’t follow suit. But it’s also unsettling, entertaining, and really quite unusual: like next year’s fashions from a more extreme house, it grows on you. Starting with the accents – a full-throttle cast led by Lady Gaga and Adam Driver speaks in English with varying degrees of Italian inflection – Scott’s couture drama invites the audience to take a trip to a lurid place where the tones shift as swiftly as the fortunes of Gaga’s magnetic lead character, Patrizia Reggiani.Īs the trailer suggests, House Of Gucci can switch into camp faster than you can swing a bamboo-handled handbag, and will certainly launch a thousand Gaga memes, an element which is accentuated by the random application of chart bangers in the soundtrack. The key word here is world: Scott and his team have created a strange place filled with high-end luxury goods and populated by rich, peculiar, larger-than-life people who really existed and did everything the film suggests, and possibly more. House Of Gucci can switch into camp faster than you can swing a bamboo-handled handbag Then again, it’s fashion, darling: a world unto itself. Ridley Scott switches tack abruptly from the masculine medieval machinations of The Last Duel – which only premiered at Venice – to a far stranger place indeed in House Of Gucci, a Milan-set drama also based on (rather more recent) real-life events which fields far more bewildering human behaviour. ![]() Source: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Incĭir. ![]()
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