HouseOfGucci “may be a drama about a crazy rich Euro chic Old World fashion dynasty, with a cast dominated by American actors scheming & emoting in gaudy Italian accents, but that doesn’t mean it’s some operatic piece of high camp,” writes OwenGleiberman
” has a transfixing backstabbing allure. It may be a drama about a crazy rich Euro chic Old World fashion dynasty, with a cast dominated by American actors scheming and emoting in gaudy Italian accents, but that doesn’t mean it’s some operatic piece of high camp. Based on the trailer, a lot of people apparently thought that’s just what it was going to be, yet trailers can be deceiving.
Scott, working from a shrewdly layered script by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna , directs with a tone of deadpan puckish gravitas. Spanking the action along with Italian pop songs and snippets of opera, he stages each scene in an impeccable, neoclassical head-on way that has no ironic distance yet creates space for the suck-in-your-breath comedy of scandalous behavior.
, bald with a fringe of long hair, unrecognizable except for his flashing eyes, not so much speaking his lines asthem, gives a delectable performance as this opera buffa wimp — the Fredo of the clan, theatrically crestfallen in his loser’s earnestness, with his insanely dorky disco moves, a flyweight Gucci who still, beneath it all, has the Gucci ego.
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