[FILM]
HOUSE OF GUCCI
Lady Gaga burns the screen as Patrizia Reggiani.
★★★
OUT NOW CERT 15 / 158 MINS
DIRECTOR Ridley Scott
CAST Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons
PLOT In Milan, 1978, Patrizia Reggiani (Gaga) meets Maurizio Gucci (Driver), young heir of the formidable fashion dynasty. Maurizio isn’t power-hungry, but Patrizia is more ambitious, and their union soon begins to sizeably shake up the family. Over the next 20 years, everybody involved will see their fortunes changed forever.
IT’S PROBABLY THE moment when Lady Gaga and Salma Hayek are having a mud-bath together and talking about casting spells that you realise House Of Gucci never had any designs on normality. Gaga is Patrizia Reggiani, the wronged woman who has turned the fashion world on its head. Hayek is Pina Auriemma, a clairvoyant who somehow becomes embroiled with it all after Patrizia phones in to her call-in television show. Just because. It’s a bizarre sub-strand of a film away with the fairies from the start.