With a style somewhere between opera buffa and telenovela, 'House of Gucci' is insistently campy yet painfully mirthless, writes critic joemorgenstern
There’s a convention in literature and film called the unreliable narrator. According to one definition I came across online, it’s a character whose telling of the story “is not completely accurate or credible due to the character’s mental state or maturity.” Keep that in mind as you read what I have to say about “House of Gucci,” playing only in theaters, because the unreliable narrator may be me.
By everything that’s unholy the story should have been irresistible, an Italianate fashion-world version of “Succession” with murder waiting in the wings.
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