{"id":12936,"date":"2021-11-23T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2021-11-23T22:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:55:45","slug":"house-of-gucci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/house-of-gucci\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Gucci"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rarely has a movie with such high hopes from director Ridley Scott and talented A-listers, including Lady Gaga, been so disappointing. This film of family betrayal, decadence, revenge and murder perpetrated by a diva had all the elements of a sizzling story based on true events, but despite the long run time, it doesn\u2019t deliver. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2000 book, \u201cThe House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed.\u201d Scott had a lot to work with but we found the pacing off and slow. Many of the scenes seemed to go nowhere and disconnected from those before and after.\u00a0The major flaw we found was the almost comically exaggerated acting and the inconsistent attempts at speaking with Italian accents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Starting with Jeremy Irons who plays, Rodolfo, the imperious head of the family and CEO of the Italian fashion house. Irons didn\u2019t even try to cover his British accent. That\u2019s in direct opposition to Al Pacino, who played Aldo, Rodolfo\u2019s brother. Pacino screamed his lines as if he was a loud, brash New Yorker. Over the top, Jared Leto, Aldo\u2019s son Paulo, has an awful presence. He\u2019s portrayed as the village idiot, fancying himself a visionary fashion designer. One of the lines proving how stupid he is, \u201cI\u2019m blind in one eye and deaf in the other.\u201d He is so odd looking, with strange makeup, a bald wig and a whiney delivery.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”12946″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”12945″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”12947″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Adam Driver\u2019s Maurizio starts out as the most reasonable, almost virtuous family member. He\u2019s handsome, impeccably dressed, well-mannered and almost too soft-spoken. That made him the perfect target for gold digger, Patrizia Reggiani, a street-wise beauty who set her sights on the Gucci fortune by marrying Maurizio. Rodolfo warned his son not to be charmed by her. Rodolfo saw through her.<\/p>\n

Lady Gaga gives this role her all, even looking very much like the real Patrizia who was often told she looked like Elizabeth Taylor. Like Al Pacino, she is also of Italian descent, but it\u2019s all the more confusing when even her accent is so inconsistent. She reportedly worked with a dialect coach for a year, but her accent sounds more Eastern European than from anywhere in Italy. Costume designer, Janty Yates (The Last Duel, All the Money in the World) creates the iconic outfits Patrizia was known for, including the ostentatious red leather ski suit. More than 20 makeup and hairstylists created the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s for all in the Gucci family. Of course, Lady Gaga had her own makeup and hair stylist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Salma Hayek plays Pina, Patrizia\u2019s card reader, fortune teller who guides Patrizia to her eventual drastic and dramatic undoing. Maurizio and Patrizia were married for 12 years before he left her. Driver plays Maurizio as weak and malleable. But once he left her, he actually became more like her. He ended up the majority share holder for the business, much to his ex-wife\u2019s dismay. And it\u2019s just one of the reasons she paid hit men to murder him.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”12963″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”12958″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”12941″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]This family\u2019s soap opera becomes bogged down and tedious. We found ourselves fidgeting in our seats waiting for something worth watching. Scenes seemed elongated, slow and disconnected. Even the anticipated visual excitement we were expecting from the fashion runways and fabulous clothes weren\u2019t visually stimulating. Even the fashion show was cut short.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Director Scott and Writer Becky Johnston, and Robert Bentivegna spend too much time on the details of growing the business rather than keeping the Gucci standard of beauty in tact. This family was one greedy bunch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a film we were excited to see, but by the end of this bloated exercise that came in at over two and a half hours, needed some judicious editing. As a matter of fact, we could have all been saved from this unsatisfying exercise if Maurizio had just listened to his father, by not marrying sexy gold digger Patrizia, instead of saying \u201cI Do.\u201d
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United Artists. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>2 hours and 37 minutes. \u00a0 <\/span>R<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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