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Lady Gaga plays Italian and speaks a Russian accent, but for good reason Lady Gaga plays Italian and speaks a Russian accent, but for good reason "Gucci House" begins as a borax film, becomes a telenovela and ends as a mafia thriller, and along the way explores the boundaries between high and low, good taste and bad taste. Ridley Scott always enjoys making movies at 83, and Lady Gaga, precisely because of her puzzling accent, turns out to be an ideal cast for the lead


Lady Gaga plays Italian and speaks a Russian accent, but for good reason

"Gucci House" begins as a borax film, becomes a telenovela and ends as a mafia thriller, and along the way explores the boundaries between high and low, good taste and bad taste.

Ridley Scott always enjoys making movies at 83, and Lady Gaga, precisely because of her puzzling accent, turns out to be an ideal cast for the lead role

Avner Shavit

26/11/2021

Friday, November 26, 2021, 12:30 p.m.

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Trailer for the movie "Gucci House" (Film Forum)

Star rating for movies - 3.5 stars (Photo: Image Processing,.)

In the first act of "The Gucci Family," Ridley Scott's recent film, the Aldo and Rodolfo brothers of the Gucci family debate the future sales strategy of the fashion empire. Aldo suggests they start selling in malls. The stubborn and arrogant Rudolph refuses - what to serve in a cemetery and what do they have in malls?



Of course in the end, the prestigious brand of the Italian family also came to the malls, and here it comes again, and this time with the film "Gucci House", which is screened this weekend in cinemas and therefore also in malls, which populate most of these halls around the world.



The story of the Jucci family is what is called a story that has it all - sparkling clothes, astronomical sums of money, family intrigues and world-wide intrigues. It's a story that had to become a book, and it happened in 2001, with Sarah J. Forden's book boasting the understated name "Gucci House: The Sensation of Murder, Madness, Glamor and Greed." The book had to someday become a movie, and that too happened in the end. The production got underway, and a host of stars were mentioned as possible candidates to play Patricia Gucci, who eventually became the most outrageous character in the family. Angelina Jolie, Margo Ruby and Penelope Cruz, among others, came and went, and the spoils fell on Lady Gaga.



Lady Gaga, as she has already demonstrated in "A Star Is Born," is ideally portrayed as an outsider, and such is her character here, born Patricia Martinelli - a poor young woman from northern Italy who never knew her biological father.

Maurizio Gucci, the family's heir apparent played by Adam Driver, met by chance at a party, and he married her despite opposition from his elitist father Rudolfo, who was horrified that his future daughter-in-law did not differentiate between painters Climt and Picasso.

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Begins as a borax movie, becomes a mafia thriller.

From "The Jucci Family" (Photo: Film Forum)

"The Gucci Family" begins as a sort of borax film, in which Rudolfo threatens to deprive Maurizio of his will due to his romantic choice; Becomes a telenovela in which Patricia proves to those who despised her that she is far more cunning than they thought; Continues as a black comedy about the family's black sheep, Paolo played by Jared Leto's grotesque character, whose appearance as the village fool and the court clown of the fashion empire will surely honor him in the Oscar nomination; And ends as a mafia thriller.



The adaptation of the book was entrusted to Roberto Netivania, an early Italian-British screenwriter; And Becky Johnston, one of the oldest screenwriters currently working in Hollywood, who was nominated for an Oscar about three decades ago for "Prince of Tides." Their script does well to show how control of the family passes each time next to another, like a ball of roulette, and repeatedly illustrates that life is a wheel.



One can only imagine what a manipulative and pretentious director like Paulo Sorrentino, for example, would have done with such a story.

He would probably have used subtitles and other artificial means to separate one chapter from another.

Ridley Scott does not, and respects the audience enough to understand on their own.

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From "The Jucci Family" (Photo: Film Forum)

This is Scott's second film to be released in recent months - preceded by "The Last Duel". At 83, his mastery of the cinematic technique is more skilled than ever, and he seems to enjoy every moment. Even when the direction is sinful in bad taste, it seems to be done on purpose. This soap opera allows him to go wild not only with family sensations, but also with colorful clothes and even more colorful acting displays.



Even before it was released, "Gucci House" attracted a lot of fire in the American media and social networks because of the casting. Despite the ethnic identity of the family, almost all the actors are not Italians or American Italians, nor do they look like one. Adam Driver, for example, does not look like he plays Mauricio Gucci, but Leonard Cohen in the 1970s.



Only two here are Italian Italians: El Pacino, who has been doing Aldo Gucci one of his best roles in recent years; And Lady Gaga, but rather she leaves a less "authentic" impression of all.She looks like Hanan Asrawi, and speaks with a Russian accent.

No recipes for ziti.

From "The Jucci Family" (Photo: Film Forum)

It sounds bad, but in the end, the casting and weird accents help the film break the corny stereotypes when it comes to representing Italians on American screens.

Yes, as in "Godfather" and all its imitations and parodies, there are also a lot of emotions and connections with organized crime, but beyond that, you will not find the usual papers and clichés of the genre.

The actors and actresses look and sound different, and the characters do not kiss each other on the palm and exchange recipes for ziti.

The musical choices also do not align with the classics of Morricone and Rota, and instead use rhythmic pop songs by Blondie and Jurithmix in the most unexpected moments.

Were it not for the name "Gucci", it would have been easy to forget that this is an Italian family.



It should be noted that the rich gallery of characters also includes characters who are not members of the Gucci family.

Selma Hayek plays a fortune teller who at first seems marginal in the plot, but becomes very central.

Maurizio's mistress is played by Cami Cotton, the French actress who broke out thanks to her role as Andrea in "Ten Percent" and has since become one of the hottest names in Hollywood, and just this week also joined Guy Nativ's "Golda" filming.

In this context, at some point guests from the Middle East also enter the cauldron.

"Gucci House" lasts no less than 157 minutes, so there is time for everything here.



As befits a film of this length, it also has less interesting moments, but in the end it is fun and entertaining.

However, at the end of the viewing the question arises - why did we actually see it?

What's the point?

The thin line between chocolate and feces.

From "The Jucci Family" (Photo: Film Forum)

Possible answer: "Gucci House" is a film about the gap between good taste and bad taste, high fashion and bottom fashion.

Time and time again, the script explores these boundaries, for example with the scene where Patricia is shocked to discover that imitations of the family brand are known in the market, with a parable Paulo tells about the similarities and differences between feces and chocolate, and of course with the same debate about Gucci's place in malls or No.

The answer proves that in the end, the high and the low will always connect, mingle and be absorbed into each other.



Laughter of Fate: Today Gucci and other fashion houses can only beg that malls not kick them out, and the same is true of movie theaters.

With the shift to online shopping and streaming, malls no longer need the trendy luxury brand or Hollywood, they have more lucrative sources of income.

Ridley Scott's next film will probably already be about intrigue in the ice cream world.

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