House of Gucci (2021)

Incredibly average.

Presentation:

Ridley Scott is really a chameleon director. He has such vast range telling stories of all kind. But sort of the like the Nicholas Cage of directing, this movie of his feels just feels like a freelance job without passion. Adam Driver somehow takes a backseat and Lady Gaga steals the show. Nothing wrong visually. This film is nothing more, nothing less than you should expect.

Conclusion:

A fun biographic drama of the scandalous Gucci story. With such material it would be hard to make it boring. The mechanics of the film have a strong foundation, but for the sake of representing as many unbiased key moments, the film ends up skimming through the climax. Lady Gaga is truly impressive, but loses screen time as the movie progresses, which is lamentable. Her development should be the heart of the film and was regrettably not properly built up. They also do Tom Ford pretty dirty, but it’s all mindless fun. Extreme forgettable.

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