HOUSE OF GUCCI Review

House of Gucci, a two and a half hour operatic-style extravaganza, is currently streaming on Netflix and is worth watching exclusively for Lady Gaga's performance as the lead character Patricia Reggiani, a real life personage (still alive). The 2021 film, directed by Scott Ridley, is a take off on a scandalous true story about the Italian fashion empire and has a big-name cast that includes Adam Driver as Maurizio Guzzi, Al Pacino as his uncle Aldo Gucci, Jeremy Irons as Maurizio's father Rodolfo Gucci, and Jared Leto as Paolo Gucci, Maurizio's cousin. Whether you take this film seriously or as an invigorating dose of camp, replete with memorable disco songs and 70s fashion and styles, it's Lady Gaga's acting and scenes you will want to watch, as she simply steals the entire movie.

An espresso and Napoleon while watching House of Gucci would have surely added to the fun.

A critical PS: I've told myself I will not make fun of other actors or negatively criticize them in my reviews, because why bother when there is usually so much else to say about a flick that can be edifying or at least tongue-in-cheek. Biting my tongue on this one has almost led to blood letting. Benign notes--Jeremy Irons' character as a stylish patriarch, full of Italian mannerisms flinging Italianisms with a British accent, may raise your eyebrows, and Jared Leto, well, you decide. Camp is not camp when it tries to be camp. It is drama that believes in itself and its emotional causality with flair and authority.



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