Half a year after ‘The House of Gucci’ hit the big screen, the film arrives on Amazon Prime Video, at no additional cost. Unlike Ridley Scott’s other film released in 2021, ‘The Last Duel’, which crashed resoundingly at the box office, this film was well received and managed to attract viewers, either by the well-known house he portrays or for its luxury cast.
Meet the Guccis
The advantage with which films based on real events usually play is to portray facts and personalities of which there is usually some prior knowledge. Who has not heard of the famous Gucci brand? As well, Ridley Scott brings us closernot so much to its birth as such (it was founded in 1921), but to the origins of its decline (representation that, in fact, quite pissed off the original family).
It all begins when Patrizia (Lady Gaga), an office worker who works for her father’s trucking company, crosses the path of Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), effectively the heir to the well-known brand. How not? Her father (Jeremy Irons) is opposed to the wedding and, from there, we will attend power struggle in which his uncle Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino) and his cousin Paolo (Jared Leto) will also be involved.
Don’t be fooled by that magnetic first encounter between Patrizia and Maurizio: ‘La Casa Gucci’ works like a mafia movie. Although the action is framed between jewels and bags, all the people involved in it are strategists on the prowl, hatching from the shadows the plan that allows them to get the biggest piece of the cake, whoever falls.
The cast, without a doubt, is the strong point of this proposal: Lady Gaga eats the screen, showing that her talent as an actress has not been a momentary whim and that she still has a lot to offer. She is joined by other equally brilliant Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, even Jared Leto (undeserved the Razzie she received for this performance).
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The main downside that we could put is that something more wild is missing in the proposal. With characters as histrionic as Leto’s, everything seemed to cry out to add some bad milk to the whole and embrace the unbridled black comedy, an aspect that in the end never happens and remains in a quite contained tone.
Its duration (two and a half hours) is also excessive, although it must also be said that most of the time manages to hold interestespecially in the first half of the story, when we are introduced to the plot of Patrizia and Maurizio and we begin to glimpse the ins and outs of the Gucci family.
After being one of the star movies on the billboard during Christmas and going through several rental platforms, Today it finally arrives on Amazon Prime Video (being an MGM film, the rights belong to Amazon Holdings) and you will be able to enjoy the intrigues and dirty laundry of one of the most famous family clans in history. His brilliant and powerful cast is already more than enough reason to give the latest from the director of ‘Alien, the eighth passenger’ a chance.