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Calculated Shard: 95 (from laksa069)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa095.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472\/","crawl_time":1775059261,"first_indexed_time":1637622260,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,hollywoodreporter!www,\/movies\/movie-reviews\/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472\/ s443","src_root_hash":"10564971293756041095","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"'House of Gucci' Review","meta_descriptions":["Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino star in 'House of Gucci,' Ridley Scott's true-crime saga of the turbulent years that led to the murder of Maurizio Gucci."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Skip to main content\nHome\nMovies\nMovie Reviews\nLady Gaga and Adam Driver in Ridley Scott’s ‘House of Gucci’: Film Review\nJared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino also star in this true-crime saga of the turbulent years that led to the murder of Maurizio Gucci, head of the eponymous Milan fashion house.\nLady Gaga in 'House of Gucci'\nCourtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.\nIt pains me to say these words about anything, but\nHouse of Gucci\nis begging to be a Ryan Murphy series. At least then we might actually know whether its frequent lurches into acidic camp were intentional.\nRidley Scott\n’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa. “I had no idea I married a monster,” hisses\nLady Gaga\nas the embittered Patrizia Reggiani, once her marriage to fashion scion Maurizio Gucci has soured. “You didn’t,” shoots back\nAdam Driver\nin the latter role. “You married a Gucci.”\nSnappy exchanges like that one recall the gloriously hoary 1980s heyday of\nDynasty\n, when the emotions were as big as the shoulder pads and hair, and the tawdry goings-on behind the wealth and glambition of a family business empire provided outrageous plot fodder. The difference here is that the seedy saga of love, betrayal and murder is based on fact. But any pathos suggested by the true-story stamp gets lost in sloppy execution. Scott returns to similar territory of dynastic wealth, sordid crime and an Italian setting just four years after\nAll the Money in the World\n, which was stolid but at least competent. This time he seems to be directing by numbers.\nHouse of Gucci\nThe Bottom Line\nOvercooked pasta, smothered in sauce.\nRelease date\n: Wednesday, Nov. 24\nCast\n: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney\nDirector\n: Ridley Scott\nScreenwriters\n: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden\nRated R,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2 hours 37 minutes\nSay what you will about the Ryan Murphy factory, but at least he dives in with an unstinting commitment to lurid excess, making him an ideal fit for real-life stories of murder most foul and fashionable. (Just watch the insane Judith Light episode of\nThe Assassination of Gianni Versace\nfor a prime example.) Scott seems oddly unsure of himself here, not helped by the clunky dialogue of Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna’s pedestrian script. Nor possibly by the challenges of shooting a decades-spanning, globe-trotting ensemble drama during a pandemic. Even less so by a cast with little cohesion but no shortage of scenery chompers.\nAlongside the inevitably fabulous period costume and production design, the high point is Gaga’s full-tilt performance, even — or perhaps especially — when she morphs into Steven Van Zandt on\nThe Sopranos\nwhile ordering a hit on her estranged husband. (My partner has been narrowing his eyes and pointing a finger at me, snarling, “Don’t meese” ever since the trailer dropped.)\nIn a performance more often than not dialed up to 110, Gaga puts on a transfixing show, bringing fierce charisma and ferocious drive to Patrizia, an accountant at her family’s trucking company who married Maurizio Gucci in 1972 and had him gunned down by a hitman in 1995. Even when she’s just lighting a cigarette or stirring an espresso, Gaga hurls herself into the character with savage gusto. Whenever she’s onscreen, the movie bristles with electricity. By contrast, Driver — in his second consecutive project for Scott after\nThe Last Duel\n— is quite subdued, crafting a complex character by more nuanced means. That puts the two leads pretty much in different movies.\nThen there are the supporting players, led by\nJeremy Irons\nas Maurizio’s suave snob of a father, the former actor Rodolfo, with an accent that drifts between Italian and standard Oxbridge. On quite another level is the prosciutto face-off between\nAl Pacino\nand\nJared Leto\nas Maurizio’s exuberant Uncle Aldo and his idiot son Paolo, respectively. Leto wins that contest by a mile with a clownish fat-suit-and-prosthetics performance that’s simply astonishing. And not in a good way. “My life has been hard, really hard. I haven’t sheet in a week,” he whines, in a line not untypical of a character who seems obsessed with defecation. “Never confuse sheet with\ncioccolato\n,” he notes later, apropos of what, I couldn’t say.\nI guess Gaga and Pacino can play the Italian American card, but really,\nHouse of Gucci\nshould carry the equivalent of an animal welfare disclaimer, stating: “No Italians were involved in the making of this film.” It’s a hellhole of wobbly accents.\nThat said, it’s never more fun than when Gaga’s Patrizia is scheming with her friend Pina (Salma Hayek), a low-rent TV psychic and cat lady, to claw back her dwindling influence within the Gucci family and, eventually, to ice Maurizio. Their spa-day scene, in which grave matters are discussed in mud baths, is a hoot. “When we get back from the Caymans, we can do a nice evil eye on him,” suggests Pina, initially trying to put the brakes on the murder plan. The delicious inside joke of Hayek being married to François-Henri Pinault — CEO of Kering, the French luxury fashion conglomerate that now controls Gucci — will escape no one.\nFrom her first appearance, it’s clear the movie belongs to Gaga as Patrizia sashays across her father’s trucking depot toward the office, poured into a snug dress and heels, soaking up the wolf whistles and leering comments of the drivers with evident pleasure. She meets Maurizio at a ritzy party in disco-era Milan and has stars in her eyes the minute she hears his surname.\nShe sets about putting herself in his path so often that he’s forced to ask her out; before long he’s introducing her to\npapà\n, Rodolfo, son of the fashion house founder Guccio Gucci. She can’t tell a Klimt from a Picasso, but Rodolfo finds Patrizia charming until Maurizio starts talking marriage, at which point he’s promptly disowned.\nBased on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name, the script is reasonably sharp in exploring matters of class, exposing the Gucci clan as self-appointed royalty rather than legitimate aristocracy. Rodolfo finds Patrizia acceptable as a plaything for his son, but immediately judges her to be a gold digger when Maurizio ushers her into the family. That happens in a cheeky cut from the two of them madly humping on Patrizia’s office desk to her walking down the aisle in an elaborate bridal gown, mystifyingly accompanied by George Michael’s “Faith.” Because it’s a Catholic wedding, maybe?\nIn Driver’s restrained performance — either elegantly reserved or cagey, depending how you see him — we get intimate psychological access to Maurizio as the passion of the early years subsides and Patrizia’s vulgarity starts to chafe. This is notable in a ski resort scene in St. Moritz with his rich friends, including the woman who would replace Patrizia, Paola Franchi (Camille Cottin). The ultimate slap in the face comes when he gives Patrizia a Bloomingdale’s gift card for Christmas. Ouch. More of that kind of sly humor might have given the film some satirical bite.\nLong before the cracks in their marriage become irreparable, Patrizia pushes Maurizio to overcome his ambivalence about joining the family firm, mending the rift with his father just in time to nab the old man’s majority stake in the company, albeit with some shifty moves. At first, she finds an ally in company chairman Uncle Aldo, as they zip back and forth between Milan and New York; and she manages to work around gauche dimwit Paolo, who has delusions of being a visionary designer. But when the two of them get in the way of Maurizio’s control, Patrizia declares, “It’s time to take out the trash.”\nWhat she hasn’t accounted for is snake-in-the-grass family lawyer Domenico De Sole, an underwritten role in which\nJack Huston\nbarely registers — except to the extent that he resembles Tom Ford way more than does Reeve Carney, who briefly turns up in that role.\nIn the aforementioned St. Moritz scene, Patrizia responds to a question about the meringue treats she’s brought with a rambling monologue about a Paris trip with Maurizio. “You’re filling the story full of unnecessary details,” he tells her in a cutting dismissal. “They just want to know where you got the macaroons, sweetie.” In a sense that’s what Johnson and Bentivegna’s screenplay does. Given that this is a movie and not an ’80s miniseries, it’s too cluttered with busy plot tangents that keep taking us away from the macaroon of Patrizia and Maurizio’s crumbling relationship. Or maybe it’s just that the film’s energy plummets whenever Gaga’s off-camera.\nSure, it’s moderately interesting to learn of Aldo’s tax-evasion travails and the corporate chicanery that nudges him and Paolo out of the company when Maurizio partners with Bahrain finance group Investcorp. But Scott can’t squeeze much dramatic juice out of these developments. The same goes for the makeover after Gucci has become démodé and Texan wunderkind Ford (Carney) is brought in to revolutionize the house style — complete with a mercifully brief appearance from a bad Anna Wintour impersonator.\nDespite frantic snatches of opera lobbed in among the random ’80s tracks by Eurythmics, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, etc., a sluggishness frequently creeps into the film, even when it should be gathering suspense as the anticipated (and anticlimactic) shooting of Maurizio approaches. Scott, who was first attached to the project in 2006, seems convinced he’s making something akin to\nThe Godfather\n. But instead the action keeps sliding into inadvertent campiness, never more so than when Patrizia and Pina are negotiating with the hitmen.\nCinematographer Dariusz Wolski mixes glitz with a faded period look to underwhelming effect, but Arthur Max’s production design and Janty Yates’ costumes provide plenty of lavish detail. As does Gaga, who commands attention in a vehicle much more solely dependent on her than\nA Star Is Born\n, where the spotlight was shared equally with Bradley Cooper. Her work here may be chewy, but she’s enthrallingly alive in the role, bringing heat to Patrizia’s hunger and growing desperation in an otherwise muddled movie that seldom ignites.\nFull credits\nDistributor: United Artists Releasing\nProduction companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, BRON Studios, Scott Free Productions\nCast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney\nDirector: Ridley Scott\nScreenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden\nProducers: Ridley Scott, Giannina Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Mark Huffam\nExecutive producers: Kevin Ulrich, Megan Ellison, Aidan Elliott, Marco Valerio Pugini, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth\nDirector of photography: Dariusz Wolski\nProduction designer: Arthur Max\nCostume designer: Janty Yates\nEditor: Claire Simpson\nMusic: Harry Gregson-Williams\nCasting: Kate Rhodes James\nRated R,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2 hours 37 minutes\nTHR Newsletters\nSign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day\nSubscribe\nSign Up","attrs_markdown":"×\n\n![an image, when javascript is unavailable](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472\/#pagetop)\n\nPlus Icon\n\nClick to expand the Mega Menu\n\nClick to expand search form\n\n[Got a tip?](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tip-line\/)\n\n[The Hollywood Reporter 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At least then we might actually know whether its frequent lurches into acidic camp were intentional. [Ridley Scott](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ridley-scott\/)’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa. “I had no idea I married a monster,” hisses [Lady Gaga](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lady-gaga\/) as the embittered Patrizia Reggiani, once her marriage to fashion scion Maurizio Gucci has soured. “You didn’t,” shoots back [Adam Driver](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-driver\/) in the latter role. “You married a Gucci.”\n\n### Related Stories\n[![Keith Zhang John Gaeta and Bruce Hunt](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Keith-Zhang-John-Gaeta-and-Bruce-Hunt-Split-Publicity-H-2026.jpg?w=1296)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/soulscape-2026-ai-filmmakers-cinema-lab-summit-1236547017\/)\n\n[Movies](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/c\/movies\/)\n\n### [Keith Zhang Partners With 'The Matrix' Vets on Soulscape, an AI Cinema Lab, Summit and 48-Hour Film Competition](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/soulscape-2026-ai-filmmakers-cinema-lab-summit-1236547017\/)\n\n[![Valerie Perrine](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/valerie_perrine-photofest-h_2019.jpg?w=1296)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/valerie-perrine-dead-superman-lenny-1236544394\/)\n\n[Movies](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/c\/movies\/)\n\n### [Valerie Perrine, 'Superman' Actress and 'Lenny' Oscar Nominee, Dies at 82](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/valerie-perrine-dead-superman-lenny-1236544394\/)\n\nSnappy exchanges like that one recall the gloriously hoary 1980s heyday of *Dynasty*, when the emotions were as big as the shoulder pads and hair, and the tawdry goings-on behind the wealth and glambition of a family business empire provided outrageous plot fodder. The difference here is that the seedy saga of love, betrayal and murder is based on fact. But any pathos suggested by the true-story stamp gets lost in sloppy execution. Scott returns to similar territory of dynastic wealth, sordid crime and an Italian setting just four years after *All the Money in the World*, which was stolid but at least competent. This time he seems to be directing by numbers.\n\n### House of Gucci\nThe Bottom Line  Overcooked pasta, smothered in sauce.\n\n**Release date**: Wednesday, Nov. 24  \n **Cast**: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney  \n **Director**: Ridley Scott  \n **Screenwriters**: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden\n\nRated R, 2 hours 37 minutes\n\nSay what you will about the Ryan Murphy factory, but at least he dives in with an unstinting commitment to lurid excess, making him an ideal fit for real-life stories of murder most foul and fashionable. (Just watch the insane Judith Light episode of *The Assassination of Gianni Versace* for a prime example.) Scott seems oddly unsure of himself here, not helped by the clunky dialogue of Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna’s pedestrian script. Nor possibly by the challenges of shooting a decades-spanning, globe-trotting ensemble drama during a pandemic. Even less so by a cast with little cohesion but no shortage of scenery chompers.\n\nAlongside the inevitably fabulous period costume and production design, the high point is Gaga’s full-tilt performance, even — or perhaps especially — when she morphs into Steven Van Zandt on *The Sopranos* while ordering a hit on her estranged husband. (My partner has been narrowing his eyes and pointing a finger at me, snarling, “Don’t meese” ever since the trailer dropped.)\n\nIn a performance more often than not dialed up to 110, Gaga puts on a transfixing show, bringing fierce charisma and ferocious drive to Patrizia, an accountant at her family’s trucking company who married Maurizio Gucci in 1972 and had him gunned down by a hitman in 1995. Even when she’s just lighting a cigarette or stirring an espresso, Gaga hurls herself into the character with savage gusto. Whenever she’s onscreen, the movie bristles with electricity. By contrast, Driver — in his second consecutive project for Scott after [*The Last Duel*](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/jodie-comer-and-adam-driver-in-ridley-scotts-the-last-duel-1235011424\/) — is quite subdued, crafting a complex character by more nuanced means. That puts the two leads pretty much in different movies.\n\nThen there are the supporting players, led by [Jeremy Irons](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jeremy-irons\/) as Maurizio’s suave snob of a father, the former actor Rodolfo, with an accent that drifts between Italian and standard Oxbridge. On quite another level is the prosciutto face-off between [Al Pacino](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/al-pacino\/) and [Jared Leto](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jared-leto\/) as Maurizio’s exuberant Uncle Aldo and his idiot son Paolo, respectively. Leto wins that contest by a mile with a clownish fat-suit-and-prosthetics performance that’s simply astonishing. And not in a good way. “My life has been hard, really hard. I haven’t sheet in a week,” he whines, in a line not untypical of a character who seems obsessed with defecation. “Never confuse sheet with *cioccolato*,” he notes later, apropos of what, I couldn’t say.\n\nI guess Gaga and Pacino can play the Italian American card, but really, *House of Gucci* should carry the equivalent of an animal welfare disclaimer, stating: “No Italians were involved in the making of this film.” It’s a hellhole of wobbly accents.\n\nThat said, it’s never more fun than when Gaga’s Patrizia is scheming with her friend Pina (Salma Hayek), a low-rent TV psychic and cat lady, to claw back her dwindling influence within the Gucci family and, eventually, to ice Maurizio. Their spa-day scene, in which grave matters are discussed in mud baths, is a hoot. “When we get back from the Caymans, we can do a nice evil eye on him,” suggests Pina, initially trying to put the brakes on the murder plan. The delicious inside joke of Hayek being married to François-Henri Pinault — CEO of Kering, the French luxury fashion conglomerate that now controls Gucci — will escape no one.\n\nFrom her first appearance, it’s clear the movie belongs to Gaga as Patrizia sashays across her father’s trucking depot toward the office, poured into a snug dress and heels, soaking up the wolf whistles and leering comments of the drivers with evident pleasure. She meets Maurizio at a ritzy party in disco-era Milan and has stars in her eyes the minute she hears his surname.\n\nShe sets about putting herself in his path so often that he’s forced to ask her out; before long he’s introducing her to *papà*, Rodolfo, son of the fashion house founder Guccio Gucci. She can’t tell a Klimt from a Picasso, but Rodolfo finds Patrizia charming until Maurizio starts talking marriage, at which point he’s promptly disowned.\n\nBased on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name, the script is reasonably sharp in exploring matters of class, exposing the Gucci clan as self-appointed royalty rather than legitimate aristocracy. Rodolfo finds Patrizia acceptable as a plaything for his son, but immediately judges her to be a gold digger when Maurizio ushers her into the family. That happens in a cheeky cut from the two of them madly humping on Patrizia’s office desk to her walking down the aisle in an elaborate bridal gown, mystifyingly accompanied by George Michael’s “Faith.” Because it’s a Catholic wedding, maybe?\n\nIn Driver’s restrained performance — either elegantly reserved or cagey, depending how you see him — we get intimate psychological access to Maurizio as the passion of the early years subsides and Patrizia’s vulgarity starts to chafe. This is notable in a ski resort scene in St. Moritz with his rich friends, including the woman who would replace Patrizia, Paola Franchi (Camille Cottin). The ultimate slap in the face comes when he gives Patrizia a Bloomingdale’s gift card for Christmas. Ouch. More of that kind of sly humor might have given the film some satirical bite.\n\nLong before the cracks in their marriage become irreparable, Patrizia pushes Maurizio to overcome his ambivalence about joining the family firm, mending the rift with his father just in time to nab the old man’s majority stake in the company, albeit with some shifty moves. At first, she finds an ally in company chairman Uncle Aldo, as they zip back and forth between Milan and New York; and she manages to work around gauche dimwit Paolo, who has delusions of being a visionary designer. But when the two of them get in the way of Maurizio’s control, Patrizia declares, “It’s time to take out the trash.”\n\nWhat she hasn’t accounted for is snake-in-the-grass family lawyer Domenico De Sole, an underwritten role in which [Jack Huston](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jack-huston\/) barely registers — except to the extent that he resembles Tom Ford way more than does Reeve Carney, who briefly turns up in that role.\n\nIn the aforementioned St. Moritz scene, Patrizia responds to a question about the meringue treats she’s brought with a rambling monologue about a Paris trip with Maurizio. “You’re filling the story full of unnecessary details,” he tells her in a cutting dismissal. “They just want to know where you got the macaroons, sweetie.” In a sense that’s what Johnson and Bentivegna’s screenplay does. Given that this is a movie and not an ’80s miniseries, it’s too cluttered with busy plot tangents that keep taking us away from the macaroon of Patrizia and Maurizio’s crumbling relationship. Or maybe it’s just that the film’s energy plummets whenever Gaga’s off-camera.\n\nSure, it’s moderately interesting to learn of Aldo’s tax-evasion travails and the corporate chicanery that nudges him and Paolo out of the company when Maurizio partners with Bahrain finance group Investcorp. But Scott can’t squeeze much dramatic juice out of these developments. The same goes for the makeover after Gucci has become démodé and Texan wunderkind Ford (Carney) is brought in to revolutionize the house style — complete with a mercifully brief appearance from a bad Anna Wintour impersonator.\n\nDespite frantic snatches of opera lobbed in among the random ’80s tracks by Eurythmics, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, etc., a sluggishness frequently creeps into the film, even when it should be gathering suspense as the anticipated (and anticlimactic) shooting of Maurizio approaches. Scott, who was first attached to the project in 2006, seems convinced he’s making something akin to *The Godfather*. But instead the action keeps sliding into inadvertent campiness, never more so than when Patrizia and Pina are negotiating with the hitmen.\n\nCinematographer Dariusz Wolski mixes glitz with a faded period look to underwhelming effect, but Arthur Max’s production design and Janty Yates’ costumes provide plenty of lavish detail. As does Gaga, who commands attention in a vehicle much more solely dependent on her than [*A Star Is Born*](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/a-star-is-born-review-1137601\/), where the spotlight was shared equally with Bradley Cooper. Her work here may be chewy, but she’s enthrallingly alive in the role, bringing heat to Patrizia’s hunger and growing desperation in an otherwise muddled movie that seldom ignites.\n\n## Full credits\nDistributor: United Artists Releasing  \n Production companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, BRON Studios, Scott Free Productions  \n Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney  \n Director: Ridley Scott  \n Screenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden  \n Producers: Ridley Scott, Giannina Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Mark Huffam  \n Executive producers: Kevin Ulrich, Megan Ellison, Aidan Elliott, Marco Valerio Pugini, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth  \n Director of photography: Dariusz Wolski  \n Production designer: Arthur Max  \n Costume designer: Janty Yates  \n Editor: Claire Simpson  \n Music: Harry Gregson-Williams  \n Casting: Kate Rhodes James\n\nRated R, 2 hours 37 minutes\n\n### Read More About:\n- [Adam Driver](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-driver\/)\n- [Al Pacino](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/al-pacino\/)\n- [Jack Huston](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jack-huston\/)\n- [Jared Leto](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jared-leto\/)\n- [Jeremy Irons](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jeremy-irons\/)\n- [Lady Gaga](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lady-gaga\/)\n- [MGM](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mgm\/)\n- [Ridley Scott](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ridley-scott\/)\n\n## THR Newsletters\nSign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day\n\n[Subscribe Sign Up](https:\/\/cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com\/signup\/)\n\n## More from The Hollywood Reporter\n- [international](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/)\n  \n  ### [Cannes Film Fest to Open With Pierre Salvadori’s Roaring Twenties Rom-Com ‘La Vénus électrique’](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/cannes-film-festival-2026-pierre-salvadori-opening-la-venus-1236553612\/)\n  \n  [![](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/venus-scaled-La-Venus-electrique-Publicity-H-2026.jpg?w=260&h=150&crop=1)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/cannes-film-festival-2026-pierre-salvadori-opening-la-venus-1236553612\/)\n- [My Old Ass](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/my-old-ass\/)\n  \n  ### [New Comedy From ‘My Old Ass’ Filmmaker Megan Park Lands at Apple Original Films](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/nmegan-park-new-movie-apple-original-films-1236553431\/)\n  \n  [![](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2201336218-H-2026.jpg?w=260&h=150&crop=1)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/nmegan-park-new-movie-apple-original-films-1236553431\/)\n- [Classic Reviews](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/classic-reviews\/)\n  \n  ### [‘Bright Lights, Big City’: THR’s 1988 Review](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/bright-lights-big-city-review-movie-michael-j-fox-1236553593\/)\n  \n  [![](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/M8DBRLI_EC002.jpg?w=260&h=150&crop=1)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/bright-lights-big-city-review-movie-michael-j-fox-1236553593\/)\n- [Supergirl](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/supergirl\/)\n  \n  ### [Milly Alcock on Inevitable ‘Supergirl’ Backlash: “I Can’t Really Stop Them”](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/milly-alcock-response-inevitable-supergirl-backlash-woman-1236553277\/)\n  \n  [![](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Milly-Alcock-Supergirl-everett-H-2026.png?w=260&h=150&crop=1)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/milly-alcock-response-inevitable-supergirl-backlash-woman-1236553277\/)\n- [zendaya](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/zendaya\/)\n  \n  ### [Zendaya Plans on “Disappearing” and Going “Into Hiding” After Her Stacked 2026 Release Schedule](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/zendaya-hiding-2026-release-euphoria-spider-man-drama-dune-1236553250\/)\n  \n  [![](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2268188101-e1774999614861.jpg?w=260&h=150&crop=1)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/zendaya-hiding-2026-release-euphoria-spider-man-drama-dune-1236553250\/)\n- [Heat Vision](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/e\/heat-vision\/)\n  \n  ### [‘Southland Tales’ at 20: Dwayne Johnson Movie Flopping Was “Very Sad” for Director Richard Kelly, Says Actor](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/southland-tales-20-director-richard-kelly-bomb-sad-1236553060\/)\n  \n  [![](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MCDSOTA_EC036.jpg?w=260&h=150&crop=1)](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/southland-tales-20-director-richard-kelly-bomb-sad-1236553060\/)\n\n[![Rege Jean Page and Halle Bailey photographed in Napa on March 19, 2026.](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/COV_TravelHub_hi_res-2026.jpg?w=1047)](https:\/\/subscriptions.hollywoodreporter.com\/site\/thr-subscribe)\n\n### [The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472\/)\nSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter\n\n[SEE MY OPTIONS Sign Up](https:\/\/subscriptions.hollywoodreporter.com\/site\/thr-subscribe)\n\n### Most Popular\n[![Megan Thee Stallion makes her Broadway debut in ‘Moulin Rouge! 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All Rights Reserved.  \n THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is a registered trademark of The Hollywood Reporter, LLC.\n\nad\n\n![Quantcast](https:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel?a.1=&a.2=p-31f3D02tYU8zY)","attrs_readable_markdown":"[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472\/#pagetop)\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/)\n- [Movies](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/c\/movies\/)\n- [Movie Reviews](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/c\/movies\/movie-reviews\/)\n## Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in Ridley Scott’s ‘House of Gucci’: Film Review\nJared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino also star in this true-crime saga of the turbulent years that led to the murder of Maurizio Gucci, head of the eponymous Milan fashion house.\n\n![Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s HOUSE OF GUCCI.](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/house-of-gucci-HoG_TP_00170_R_rgb-H-2021.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1)\n\nLady Gaga in 'House of Gucci'\n\nCourtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.\n\nIt pains me to say these words about anything, but *House of Gucci* is begging to be a Ryan Murphy series. At least then we might actually know whether its frequent lurches into acidic camp were intentional. [Ridley Scott](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ridley-scott\/)’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa. “I had no idea I married a monster,” hisses [Lady Gaga](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lady-gaga\/) as the embittered Patrizia Reggiani, once her marriage to fashion scion Maurizio Gucci has soured. “You didn’t,” shoots back [Adam Driver](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-driver\/) in the latter role. “You married a Gucci.”\n\nSnappy exchanges like that one recall the gloriously hoary 1980s heyday of *Dynasty*, when the emotions were as big as the shoulder pads and hair, and the tawdry goings-on behind the wealth and glambition of a family business empire provided outrageous plot fodder. The difference here is that the seedy saga of love, betrayal and murder is based on fact. But any pathos suggested by the true-story stamp gets lost in sloppy execution. Scott returns to similar territory of dynastic wealth, sordid crime and an Italian setting just four years after *All the Money in the World*, which was stolid but at least competent. This time he seems to be directing by numbers.\n\n### House of Gucci\nThe Bottom Line  Overcooked pasta, smothered in sauce.\n\n**Release date**: Wednesday, Nov. 24  \n **Cast**: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney  \n **Director**: Ridley Scott  \n **Screenwriters**: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden\n\nRated R, 2 hours 37 minutes\n\nSay what you will about the Ryan Murphy factory, but at least he dives in with an unstinting commitment to lurid excess, making him an ideal fit for real-life stories of murder most foul and fashionable. (Just watch the insane Judith Light episode of *The Assassination of Gianni Versace* for a prime example.) Scott seems oddly unsure of himself here, not helped by the clunky dialogue of Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna’s pedestrian script. Nor possibly by the challenges of shooting a decades-spanning, globe-trotting ensemble drama during a pandemic. Even less so by a cast with little cohesion but no shortage of scenery chompers.\n\nAlongside the inevitably fabulous period costume and production design, the high point is Gaga’s full-tilt performance, even — or perhaps especially — when she morphs into Steven Van Zandt on *The Sopranos* while ordering a hit on her estranged husband. (My partner has been narrowing his eyes and pointing a finger at me, snarling, “Don’t meese” ever since the trailer dropped.)\n\nIn a performance more often than not dialed up to 110, Gaga puts on a transfixing show, bringing fierce charisma and ferocious drive to Patrizia, an accountant at her family’s trucking company who married Maurizio Gucci in 1972 and had him gunned down by a hitman in 1995. Even when she’s just lighting a cigarette or stirring an espresso, Gaga hurls herself into the character with savage gusto. Whenever she’s onscreen, the movie bristles with electricity. By contrast, Driver — in his second consecutive project for Scott after [*The Last Duel*](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/jodie-comer-and-adam-driver-in-ridley-scotts-the-last-duel-1235011424\/) — is quite subdued, crafting a complex character by more nuanced means. That puts the two leads pretty much in different movies.\n\nThen there are the supporting players, led by [Jeremy Irons](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jeremy-irons\/) as Maurizio’s suave snob of a father, the former actor Rodolfo, with an accent that drifts between Italian and standard Oxbridge. On quite another level is the prosciutto face-off between [Al Pacino](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/al-pacino\/) and [Jared Leto](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jared-leto\/) as Maurizio’s exuberant Uncle Aldo and his idiot son Paolo, respectively. Leto wins that contest by a mile with a clownish fat-suit-and-prosthetics performance that’s simply astonishing. And not in a good way. “My life has been hard, really hard. I haven’t sheet in a week,” he whines, in a line not untypical of a character who seems obsessed with defecation. “Never confuse sheet with *cioccolato*,” he notes later, apropos of what, I couldn’t say.\n\nI guess Gaga and Pacino can play the Italian American card, but really, *House of Gucci* should carry the equivalent of an animal welfare disclaimer, stating: “No Italians were involved in the making of this film.” It’s a hellhole of wobbly accents.\n\nThat said, it’s never more fun than when Gaga’s Patrizia is scheming with her friend Pina (Salma Hayek), a low-rent TV psychic and cat lady, to claw back her dwindling influence within the Gucci family and, eventually, to ice Maurizio. Their spa-day scene, in which grave matters are discussed in mud baths, is a hoot. “When we get back from the Caymans, we can do a nice evil eye on him,” suggests Pina, initially trying to put the brakes on the murder plan. The delicious inside joke of Hayek being married to François-Henri Pinault — CEO of Kering, the French luxury fashion conglomerate that now controls Gucci — will escape no one.\n\nFrom her first appearance, it’s clear the movie belongs to Gaga as Patrizia sashays across her father’s trucking depot toward the office, poured into a snug dress and heels, soaking up the wolf whistles and leering comments of the drivers with evident pleasure. She meets Maurizio at a ritzy party in disco-era Milan and has stars in her eyes the minute she hears his surname.\n\nShe sets about putting herself in his path so often that he’s forced to ask her out; before long he’s introducing her to *papà*, Rodolfo, son of the fashion house founder Guccio Gucci. She can’t tell a Klimt from a Picasso, but Rodolfo finds Patrizia charming until Maurizio starts talking marriage, at which point he’s promptly disowned.\n\nBased on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name, the script is reasonably sharp in exploring matters of class, exposing the Gucci clan as self-appointed royalty rather than legitimate aristocracy. Rodolfo finds Patrizia acceptable as a plaything for his son, but immediately judges her to be a gold digger when Maurizio ushers her into the family. That happens in a cheeky cut from the two of them madly humping on Patrizia’s office desk to her walking down the aisle in an elaborate bridal gown, mystifyingly accompanied by George Michael’s “Faith.” Because it’s a Catholic wedding, maybe?\n\nIn Driver’s restrained performance — either elegantly reserved or cagey, depending how you see him — we get intimate psychological access to Maurizio as the passion of the early years subsides and Patrizia’s vulgarity starts to chafe. This is notable in a ski resort scene in St. Moritz with his rich friends, including the woman who would replace Patrizia, Paola Franchi (Camille Cottin). The ultimate slap in the face comes when he gives Patrizia a Bloomingdale’s gift card for Christmas. Ouch. More of that kind of sly humor might have given the film some satirical bite.\n\nLong before the cracks in their marriage become irreparable, Patrizia pushes Maurizio to overcome his ambivalence about joining the family firm, mending the rift with his father just in time to nab the old man’s majority stake in the company, albeit with some shifty moves. At first, she finds an ally in company chairman Uncle Aldo, as they zip back and forth between Milan and New York; and she manages to work around gauche dimwit Paolo, who has delusions of being a visionary designer. But when the two of them get in the way of Maurizio’s control, Patrizia declares, “It’s time to take out the trash.”\n\nWhat she hasn’t accounted for is snake-in-the-grass family lawyer Domenico De Sole, an underwritten role in which [Jack Huston](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jack-huston\/) barely registers — except to the extent that he resembles Tom Ford way more than does Reeve Carney, who briefly turns up in that role.\n\nIn the aforementioned St. Moritz scene, Patrizia responds to a question about the meringue treats she’s brought with a rambling monologue about a Paris trip with Maurizio. “You’re filling the story full of unnecessary details,” he tells her in a cutting dismissal. “They just want to know where you got the macaroons, sweetie.” In a sense that’s what Johnson and Bentivegna’s screenplay does. Given that this is a movie and not an ’80s miniseries, it’s too cluttered with busy plot tangents that keep taking us away from the macaroon of Patrizia and Maurizio’s crumbling relationship. Or maybe it’s just that the film’s energy plummets whenever Gaga’s off-camera.\n\nSure, it’s moderately interesting to learn of Aldo’s tax-evasion travails and the corporate chicanery that nudges him and Paolo out of the company when Maurizio partners with Bahrain finance group Investcorp. But Scott can’t squeeze much dramatic juice out of these developments. The same goes for the makeover after Gucci has become démodé and Texan wunderkind Ford (Carney) is brought in to revolutionize the house style — complete with a mercifully brief appearance from a bad Anna Wintour impersonator.\n\nDespite frantic snatches of opera lobbed in among the random ’80s tracks by Eurythmics, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, etc., a sluggishness frequently creeps into the film, even when it should be gathering suspense as the anticipated (and anticlimactic) shooting of Maurizio approaches. Scott, who was first attached to the project in 2006, seems convinced he’s making something akin to *The Godfather*. But instead the action keeps sliding into inadvertent campiness, never more so than when Patrizia and Pina are negotiating with the hitmen.\n\nCinematographer Dariusz Wolski mixes glitz with a faded period look to underwhelming effect, but Arthur Max’s production design and Janty Yates’ costumes provide plenty of lavish detail. 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Boilerpipe Text	Skip to main content Home Movies Movie Reviews Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in Ridley Scott’s ‘House of Gucci’: Film Review Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino also star in this true-crime saga of the turbulent years that led to the murder of Maurizio Gucci, head of the eponymous Milan fashion house. Lady Gaga in 'House of Gucci' Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. It pains me to say these words about anything, but House of Gucci is begging to be a Ryan Murphy series. At least then we might actually know whether its frequent lurches into acidic camp were intentional. Ridley Scott ’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa. “I had no idea I married a monster,” hisses Lady Gaga as the embittered Patrizia Reggiani, once her marriage to fashion scion Maurizio Gucci has soured. “You didn’t,” shoots back Adam Driver in the latter role. “You married a Gucci.” Snappy exchanges like that one recall the gloriously hoary 1980s heyday of Dynasty , when the emotions were as big as the shoulder pads and hair, and the tawdry goings-on behind the wealth and glambition of a family business empire provided outrageous plot fodder. The difference here is that the seedy saga of love, betrayal and murder is based on fact. But any pathos suggested by the true-story stamp gets lost in sloppy execution. Scott returns to similar territory of dynastic wealth, sordid crime and an Italian setting just four years after All the Money in the World , which was stolid but at least competent. This time he seems to be directing by numbers. House of Gucci The Bottom Line Overcooked pasta, smothered in sauce. Release date : Wednesday, Nov. 24 Cast : Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney Director : Ridley Scott Screenwriters : Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden Rated R, 2 hours 37 minutes Say what you will about the Ryan Murphy factory, but at least he dives in with an unstinting commitment to lurid excess, making him an ideal fit for real-life stories of murder most foul and fashionable. (Just watch the insane Judith Light episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace for a prime example.) Scott seems oddly unsure of himself here, not helped by the clunky dialogue of Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna’s pedestrian script. Nor possibly by the challenges of shooting a decades-spanning, globe-trotting ensemble drama during a pandemic. Even less so by a cast with little cohesion but no shortage of scenery chompers. Alongside the inevitably fabulous period costume and production design, the high point is Gaga’s full-tilt performance, even — or perhaps especially — when she morphs into Steven Van Zandt on The Sopranos while ordering a hit on her estranged husband. (My partner has been narrowing his eyes and pointing a finger at me, snarling, “Don’t meese” ever since the trailer dropped.) In a performance more often than not dialed up to 110, Gaga puts on a transfixing show, bringing fierce charisma and ferocious drive to Patrizia, an accountant at her family’s trucking company who married Maurizio Gucci in 1972 and had him gunned down by a hitman in 1995. Even when she’s just lighting a cigarette or stirring an espresso, Gaga hurls herself into the character with savage gusto. Whenever she’s onscreen, the movie bristles with electricity. By contrast, Driver — in his second consecutive project for Scott after The Last Duel — is quite subdued, crafting a complex character by more nuanced means. That puts the two leads pretty much in different movies. Then there are the supporting players, led by Jeremy Irons as Maurizio’s suave snob of a father, the former actor Rodolfo, with an accent that drifts between Italian and standard Oxbridge. On quite another level is the prosciutto face-off between Al Pacino and Jared Leto as Maurizio’s exuberant Uncle Aldo and his idiot son Paolo, respectively. Leto wins that contest by a mile with a clownish fat-suit-and-prosthetics performance that’s simply astonishing. And not in a good way. “My life has been hard, really hard. I haven’t sheet in a week,” he whines, in a line not untypical of a character who seems obsessed with defecation. “Never confuse sheet with cioccolato ,” he notes later, apropos of what, I couldn’t say. I guess Gaga and Pacino can play the Italian American card, but really, House of Gucci should carry the equivalent of an animal welfare disclaimer, stating: “No Italians were involved in the making of this film.” It’s a hellhole of wobbly accents. That said, it’s never more fun than when Gaga’s Patrizia is scheming with her friend Pina (Salma Hayek), a low-rent TV psychic and cat lady, to claw back her dwindling influence within the Gucci family and, eventually, to ice Maurizio. Their spa-day scene, in which grave matters are discussed in mud baths, is a hoot. “When we get back from the Caymans, we can do a nice evil eye on him,” suggests Pina, initially trying to put the brakes on the murder plan. The delicious inside joke of Hayek being married to François-Henri Pinault — CEO of Kering, the French luxury fashion conglomerate that now controls Gucci — will escape no one. From her first appearance, it’s clear the movie belongs to Gaga as Patrizia sashays across her father’s trucking depot toward the office, poured into a snug dress and heels, soaking up the wolf whistles and leering comments of the drivers with evident pleasure. She meets Maurizio at a ritzy party in disco-era Milan and has stars in her eyes the minute she hears his surname. She sets about putting herself in his path so often that he’s forced to ask her out; before long he’s introducing her to papà , Rodolfo, son of the fashion house founder Guccio Gucci. She can’t tell a Klimt from a Picasso, but Rodolfo finds Patrizia charming until Maurizio starts talking marriage, at which point he’s promptly disowned. Based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name, the script is reasonably sharp in exploring matters of class, exposing the Gucci clan as self-appointed royalty rather than legitimate aristocracy. Rodolfo finds Patrizia acceptable as a plaything for his son, but immediately judges her to be a gold digger when Maurizio ushers her into the family. That happens in a cheeky cut from the two of them madly humping on Patrizia’s office desk to her walking down the aisle in an elaborate bridal gown, mystifyingly accompanied by George Michael’s “Faith.” Because it’s a Catholic wedding, maybe? In Driver’s restrained performance — either elegantly reserved or cagey, depending how you see him — we get intimate psychological access to Maurizio as the passion of the early years subsides and Patrizia’s vulgarity starts to chafe. This is notable in a ski resort scene in St. Moritz with his rich friends, including the woman who would replace Patrizia, Paola Franchi (Camille Cottin). The ultimate slap in the face comes when he gives Patrizia a Bloomingdale’s gift card for Christmas. Ouch. More of that kind of sly humor might have given the film some satirical bite. Long before the cracks in their marriage become irreparable, Patrizia pushes Maurizio to overcome his ambivalence about joining the family firm, mending the rift with his father just in time to nab the old man’s majority stake in the company, albeit with some shifty moves. At first, she finds an ally in company chairman Uncle Aldo, as they zip back and forth between Milan and New York; and she manages to work around gauche dimwit Paolo, who has delusions of being a visionary designer. But when the two of them get in the way of Maurizio’s control, Patrizia declares, “It’s time to take out the trash.” What she hasn’t accounted for is snake-in-the-grass family lawyer Domenico De Sole, an underwritten role in which Jack Huston barely registers — except to the extent that he resembles Tom Ford way more than does Reeve Carney, who briefly turns up in that role. In the aforementioned St. Moritz scene, Patrizia responds to a question about the meringue treats she’s brought with a rambling monologue about a Paris trip with Maurizio. “You’re filling the story full of unnecessary details,” he tells her in a cutting dismissal. “They just want to know where you got the macaroons, sweetie.” In a sense that’s what Johnson and Bentivegna’s screenplay does. Given that this is a movie and not an ’80s miniseries, it’s too cluttered with busy plot tangents that keep taking us away from the macaroon of Patrizia and Maurizio’s crumbling relationship. Or maybe it’s just that the film’s energy plummets whenever Gaga’s off-camera. Sure, it’s moderately interesting to learn of Aldo’s tax-evasion travails and the corporate chicanery that nudges him and Paolo out of the company when Maurizio partners with Bahrain finance group Investcorp. But Scott can’t squeeze much dramatic juice out of these developments. The same goes for the makeover after Gucci has become démodé and Texan wunderkind Ford (Carney) is brought in to revolutionize the house style — complete with a mercifully brief appearance from a bad Anna Wintour impersonator. Despite frantic snatches of opera lobbed in among the random ’80s tracks by Eurythmics, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, etc., a sluggishness frequently creeps into the film, even when it should be gathering suspense as the anticipated (and anticlimactic) shooting of Maurizio approaches. Scott, who was first attached to the project in 2006, seems convinced he’s making something akin to The Godfather . But instead the action keeps sliding into inadvertent campiness, never more so than when Patrizia and Pina are negotiating with the hitmen. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski mixes glitz with a faded period look to underwhelming effect, but Arthur Max’s production design and Janty Yates’ costumes provide plenty of lavish detail. As does Gaga, who commands attention in a vehicle much more solely dependent on her than A Star Is Born , where the spotlight was shared equally with Bradley Cooper. Her work here may be chewy, but she’s enthrallingly alive in the role, bringing heat to Patrizia’s hunger and growing desperation in an otherwise muddled movie that seldom ignites. Full credits Distributor: United Artists Releasing Production companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, BRON Studios, Scott Free Productions Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden Producers: Ridley Scott, Giannina Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Mark Huffam Executive producers: Kevin Ulrich, Megan Ellison, Aidan Elliott, Marco Valerio Pugini, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth Director of photography: Dariusz Wolski Production designer: Arthur Max Costume designer: Janty Yates Editor: Claire Simpson Music: Harry Gregson-Williams Casting: Kate Rhodes James Rated R, 2 hours 37 minutes THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up
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[Print the Article](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472/) - [Post a Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472/#respond) It pains me to say these words about anything, but House of Gucci is begging to be a Ryan Murphy series. At least then we might actually know whether its frequent lurches into acidic camp were intentional. [Ridley Scott](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/ridley-scott/)’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa. “I had no idea I married a monster,” hisses [Lady Gaga](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/lady-gaga/) as the embittered Patrizia Reggiani, once her marriage to fashion scion Maurizio Gucci has soured. “You didn’t,” shoots back [Adam Driver](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/adam-driver/) in the latter role. “You married a Gucci.” ### Related Stories [![Keith Zhang John Gaeta and Bruce Hunt](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Keith-Zhang-John-Gaeta-and-Bruce-Hunt-Split-Publicity-H-2026.jpg?w=1296)](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/soulscape-2026-ai-filmmakers-cinema-lab-summit-1236547017/) [Movies](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/c/movies/) ### [Keith Zhang Partners With 'The Matrix' Vets on Soulscape, an AI Cinema Lab, Summit and 48-Hour Film Competition](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/soulscape-2026-ai-filmmakers-cinema-lab-summit-1236547017/) [![Valerie Perrine](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/valerie_perrine-photofest-h_2019.jpg?w=1296)](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/valerie-perrine-dead-superman-lenny-1236544394/) [Movies](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/c/movies/) ### [Valerie Perrine, 'Superman' Actress and 'Lenny' Oscar Nominee, Dies at 82](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/valerie-perrine-dead-superman-lenny-1236544394/) Snappy exchanges like that one recall the gloriously hoary 1980s heyday of Dynasty, when the emotions were as big as the shoulder pads and hair, and the tawdry goings-on behind the wealth and glambition of a family business empire provided outrageous plot fodder. The difference here is that the seedy saga of love, betrayal and murder is based on fact. But any pathos suggested by the true-story stamp gets lost in sloppy execution. Scott returns to similar territory of dynastic wealth, sordid crime and an Italian setting just four years after All the Money in the World, which was stolid but at least competent. This time he seems to be directing by numbers. ### House of Gucci The Bottom Line Overcooked pasta, smothered in sauce. Release date: Wednesday, Nov. 24 Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden Rated R, 2 hours 37 minutes Say what you will about the Ryan Murphy factory, but at least he dives in with an unstinting commitment to lurid excess, making him an ideal fit for real-life stories of murder most foul and fashionable. (Just watch the insane Judith Light episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace for a prime example.) Scott seems oddly unsure of himself here, not helped by the clunky dialogue of Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna’s pedestrian script. Nor possibly by the challenges of shooting a decades-spanning, globe-trotting ensemble drama during a pandemic. Even less so by a cast with little cohesion but no shortage of scenery chompers. Alongside the inevitably fabulous period costume and production design, the high point is Gaga’s full-tilt performance, even — or perhaps especially — when she morphs into Steven Van Zandt on The Sopranos while ordering a hit on her estranged husband. (My partner has been narrowing his eyes and pointing a finger at me, snarling, “Don’t meese” ever since the trailer dropped.) In a performance more often than not dialed up to 110, Gaga puts on a transfixing show, bringing fierce charisma and ferocious drive to Patrizia, an accountant at her family’s trucking company who married Maurizio Gucci in 1972 and had him gunned down by a hitman in 1995. Even when she’s just lighting a cigarette or stirring an espresso, Gaga hurls herself into the character with savage gusto. Whenever she’s onscreen, the movie bristles with electricity. By contrast, Driver — in his second consecutive project for Scott after [The Last Duel](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/jodie-comer-and-adam-driver-in-ridley-scotts-the-last-duel-1235011424/) — is quite subdued, crafting a complex character by more nuanced means. That puts the two leads pretty much in different movies. Then there are the supporting players, led by [Jeremy Irons](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jeremy-irons/) as Maurizio’s suave snob of a father, the former actor Rodolfo, with an accent that drifts between Italian and standard Oxbridge. On quite another level is the prosciutto face-off between [Al Pacino](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/al-pacino/) and [Jared Leto](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jared-leto/) as Maurizio’s exuberant Uncle Aldo and his idiot son Paolo, respectively. Leto wins that contest by a mile with a clownish fat-suit-and-prosthetics performance that’s simply astonishing. And not in a good way. “My life has been hard, really hard. I haven’t sheet in a week,” he whines, in a line not untypical of a character who seems obsessed with defecation. “Never confuse sheet with cioccolato,” he notes later, apropos of what, I couldn’t say. I guess Gaga and Pacino can play the Italian American card, but really, House of Gucci should carry the equivalent of an animal welfare disclaimer, stating: “No Italians were involved in the making of this film.” It’s a hellhole of wobbly accents. That said, it’s never more fun than when Gaga’s Patrizia is scheming with her friend Pina (Salma Hayek), a low-rent TV psychic and cat lady, to claw back her dwindling influence within the Gucci family and, eventually, to ice Maurizio. Their spa-day scene, in which grave matters are discussed in mud baths, is a hoot. “When we get back from the Caymans, we can do a nice evil eye on him,” suggests Pina, initially trying to put the brakes on the murder plan. The delicious inside joke of Hayek being married to François-Henri Pinault — CEO of Kering, the French luxury fashion conglomerate that now controls Gucci — will escape no one. From her first appearance, it’s clear the movie belongs to Gaga as Patrizia sashays across her father’s trucking depot toward the office, poured into a snug dress and heels, soaking up the wolf whistles and leering comments of the drivers with evident pleasure. She meets Maurizio at a ritzy party in disco-era Milan and has stars in her eyes the minute she hears his surname. She sets about putting herself in his path so often that he’s forced to ask her out; before long he’s introducing her to papà, Rodolfo, son of the fashion house founder Guccio Gucci. She can’t tell a Klimt from a Picasso, but Rodolfo finds Patrizia charming until Maurizio starts talking marriage, at which point he’s promptly disowned. Based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name, the script is reasonably sharp in exploring matters of class, exposing the Gucci clan as self-appointed royalty rather than legitimate aristocracy. Rodolfo finds Patrizia acceptable as a plaything for his son, but immediately judges her to be a gold digger when Maurizio ushers her into the family. That happens in a cheeky cut from the two of them madly humping on Patrizia’s office desk to her walking down the aisle in an elaborate bridal gown, mystifyingly accompanied by George Michael’s “Faith.” Because it’s a Catholic wedding, maybe? In Driver’s restrained performance — either elegantly reserved or cagey, depending how you see him — we get intimate psychological access to Maurizio as the passion of the early years subsides and Patrizia’s vulgarity starts to chafe. This is notable in a ski resort scene in St. Moritz with his rich friends, including the woman who would replace Patrizia, Paola Franchi (Camille Cottin). The ultimate slap in the face comes when he gives Patrizia a Bloomingdale’s gift card for Christmas. Ouch. More of that kind of sly humor might have given the film some satirical bite. Long before the cracks in their marriage become irreparable, Patrizia pushes Maurizio to overcome his ambivalence about joining the family firm, mending the rift with his father just in time to nab the old man’s majority stake in the company, albeit with some shifty moves. At first, she finds an ally in company chairman Uncle Aldo, as they zip back and forth between Milan and New York; and she manages to work around gauche dimwit Paolo, who has delusions of being a visionary designer. But when the two of them get in the way of Maurizio’s control, Patrizia declares, “It’s time to take out the trash.” What she hasn’t accounted for is snake-in-the-grass family lawyer Domenico De Sole, an underwritten role in which [Jack Huston](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jack-huston/) barely registers — except to the extent that he resembles Tom Ford way more than does Reeve Carney, who briefly turns up in that role. In the aforementioned St. Moritz scene, Patrizia responds to a question about the meringue treats she’s brought with a rambling monologue about a Paris trip with Maurizio. “You’re filling the story full of unnecessary details,” he tells her in a cutting dismissal. “They just want to know where you got the macaroons, sweetie.” In a sense that’s what Johnson and Bentivegna’s screenplay does. Given that this is a movie and not an ’80s miniseries, it’s too cluttered with busy plot tangents that keep taking us away from the macaroon of Patrizia and Maurizio’s crumbling relationship. Or maybe it’s just that the film’s energy plummets whenever Gaga’s off-camera. Sure, it’s moderately interesting to learn of Aldo’s tax-evasion travails and the corporate chicanery that nudges him and Paolo out of the company when Maurizio partners with Bahrain finance group Investcorp. But Scott can’t squeeze much dramatic juice out of these developments. The same goes for the makeover after Gucci has become démodé and Texan wunderkind Ford (Carney) is brought in to revolutionize the house style — complete with a mercifully brief appearance from a bad Anna Wintour impersonator. Despite frantic snatches of opera lobbed in among the random ’80s tracks by Eurythmics, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, etc., a sluggishness frequently creeps into the film, even when it should be gathering suspense as the anticipated (and anticlimactic) shooting of Maurizio approaches. Scott, who was first attached to the project in 2006, seems convinced he’s making something akin to The Godfather. But instead the action keeps sliding into inadvertent campiness, never more so than when Patrizia and Pina are negotiating with the hitmen. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski mixes glitz with a faded period look to underwhelming effect, but Arthur Max’s production design and Janty Yates’ costumes provide plenty of lavish detail. As does Gaga, who commands attention in a vehicle much more solely dependent on her than [A Star Is Born](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/a-star-is-born-review-1137601/), where the spotlight was shared equally with Bradley Cooper. Her work here may be chewy, but she’s enthrallingly alive in the role, bringing heat to Patrizia’s hunger and growing desperation in an otherwise muddled movie that seldom ignites. ## Full credits Distributor: United Artists Releasing Production companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, BRON Studios, Scott Free Productions Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden Producers: Ridley Scott, Giannina Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Mark Huffam Executive producers: Kevin Ulrich, Megan Ellison, Aidan Elliott, Marco Valerio Pugini, Aaron L. 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Readable Markdown	[Skip to main content](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/house-of-gucci-lady-gaga-1235049472/#pagetop) - [Home](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/) - [Movies](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/c/movies/) - [Movie Reviews](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/c/movies/movie-reviews/) ## Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in Ridley Scott’s ‘House of Gucci’: Film Review Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino also star in this true-crime saga of the turbulent years that led to the murder of Maurizio Gucci, head of the eponymous Milan fashion house. ![Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s HOUSE OF GUCCI.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/house-of-gucci-HoG_TP_00170_R_rgb-H-2021.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1) Lady Gaga in 'House of Gucci' Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. It pains me to say these words about anything, but House of Gucci is begging to be a Ryan Murphy series. At least then we might actually know whether its frequent lurches into acidic camp were intentional. [Ridley Scott](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/ridley-scott/)’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa. “I had no idea I married a monster,” hisses [Lady Gaga](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/lady-gaga/) as the embittered Patrizia Reggiani, once her marriage to fashion scion Maurizio Gucci has soured. “You didn’t,” shoots back [Adam Driver](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/adam-driver/) in the latter role. “You married a Gucci.” Snappy exchanges like that one recall the gloriously hoary 1980s heyday of Dynasty, when the emotions were as big as the shoulder pads and hair, and the tawdry goings-on behind the wealth and glambition of a family business empire provided outrageous plot fodder. The difference here is that the seedy saga of love, betrayal and murder is based on fact. But any pathos suggested by the true-story stamp gets lost in sloppy execution. Scott returns to similar territory of dynastic wealth, sordid crime and an Italian setting just four years after All the Money in the World, which was stolid but at least competent. This time he seems to be directing by numbers. ### House of Gucci The Bottom Line Overcooked pasta, smothered in sauce. Release date: Wednesday, Nov. 24 Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden Rated R, 2 hours 37 minutes Say what you will about the Ryan Murphy factory, but at least he dives in with an unstinting commitment to lurid excess, making him an ideal fit for real-life stories of murder most foul and fashionable. (Just watch the insane Judith Light episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace for a prime example.) Scott seems oddly unsure of himself here, not helped by the clunky dialogue of Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna’s pedestrian script. Nor possibly by the challenges of shooting a decades-spanning, globe-trotting ensemble drama during a pandemic. Even less so by a cast with little cohesion but no shortage of scenery chompers. Alongside the inevitably fabulous period costume and production design, the high point is Gaga’s full-tilt performance, even — or perhaps especially — when she morphs into Steven Van Zandt on The Sopranos while ordering a hit on her estranged husband. (My partner has been narrowing his eyes and pointing a finger at me, snarling, “Don’t meese” ever since the trailer dropped.) In a performance more often than not dialed up to 110, Gaga puts on a transfixing show, bringing fierce charisma and ferocious drive to Patrizia, an accountant at her family’s trucking company who married Maurizio Gucci in 1972 and had him gunned down by a hitman in 1995. Even when she’s just lighting a cigarette or stirring an espresso, Gaga hurls herself into the character with savage gusto. Whenever she’s onscreen, the movie bristles with electricity. By contrast, Driver — in his second consecutive project for Scott after [The Last Duel](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/jodie-comer-and-adam-driver-in-ridley-scotts-the-last-duel-1235011424/) — is quite subdued, crafting a complex character by more nuanced means. That puts the two leads pretty much in different movies. Then there are the supporting players, led by [Jeremy Irons](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jeremy-irons/) as Maurizio’s suave snob of a father, the former actor Rodolfo, with an accent that drifts between Italian and standard Oxbridge. On quite another level is the prosciutto face-off between [Al Pacino](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/al-pacino/) and [Jared Leto](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jared-leto/) as Maurizio’s exuberant Uncle Aldo and his idiot son Paolo, respectively. Leto wins that contest by a mile with a clownish fat-suit-and-prosthetics performance that’s simply astonishing. And not in a good way. “My life has been hard, really hard. I haven’t sheet in a week,” he whines, in a line not untypical of a character who seems obsessed with defecation. “Never confuse sheet with cioccolato,” he notes later, apropos of what, I couldn’t say. I guess Gaga and Pacino can play the Italian American card, but really, House of Gucci should carry the equivalent of an animal welfare disclaimer, stating: “No Italians were involved in the making of this film.” It’s a hellhole of wobbly accents. That said, it’s never more fun than when Gaga’s Patrizia is scheming with her friend Pina (Salma Hayek), a low-rent TV psychic and cat lady, to claw back her dwindling influence within the Gucci family and, eventually, to ice Maurizio. Their spa-day scene, in which grave matters are discussed in mud baths, is a hoot. “When we get back from the Caymans, we can do a nice evil eye on him,” suggests Pina, initially trying to put the brakes on the murder plan. The delicious inside joke of Hayek being married to François-Henri Pinault — CEO of Kering, the French luxury fashion conglomerate that now controls Gucci — will escape no one. From her first appearance, it’s clear the movie belongs to Gaga as Patrizia sashays across her father’s trucking depot toward the office, poured into a snug dress and heels, soaking up the wolf whistles and leering comments of the drivers with evident pleasure. She meets Maurizio at a ritzy party in disco-era Milan and has stars in her eyes the minute she hears his surname. She sets about putting herself in his path so often that he’s forced to ask her out; before long he’s introducing her to papà, Rodolfo, son of the fashion house founder Guccio Gucci. She can’t tell a Klimt from a Picasso, but Rodolfo finds Patrizia charming until Maurizio starts talking marriage, at which point he’s promptly disowned. Based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name, the script is reasonably sharp in exploring matters of class, exposing the Gucci clan as self-appointed royalty rather than legitimate aristocracy. Rodolfo finds Patrizia acceptable as a plaything for his son, but immediately judges her to be a gold digger when Maurizio ushers her into the family. That happens in a cheeky cut from the two of them madly humping on Patrizia’s office desk to her walking down the aisle in an elaborate bridal gown, mystifyingly accompanied by George Michael’s “Faith.” Because it’s a Catholic wedding, maybe? In Driver’s restrained performance — either elegantly reserved or cagey, depending how you see him — we get intimate psychological access to Maurizio as the passion of the early years subsides and Patrizia’s vulgarity starts to chafe. This is notable in a ski resort scene in St. Moritz with his rich friends, including the woman who would replace Patrizia, Paola Franchi (Camille Cottin). The ultimate slap in the face comes when he gives Patrizia a Bloomingdale’s gift card for Christmas. Ouch. More of that kind of sly humor might have given the film some satirical bite. Long before the cracks in their marriage become irreparable, Patrizia pushes Maurizio to overcome his ambivalence about joining the family firm, mending the rift with his father just in time to nab the old man’s majority stake in the company, albeit with some shifty moves. At first, she finds an ally in company chairman Uncle Aldo, as they zip back and forth between Milan and New York; and she manages to work around gauche dimwit Paolo, who has delusions of being a visionary designer. But when the two of them get in the way of Maurizio’s control, Patrizia declares, “It’s time to take out the trash.” What she hasn’t accounted for is snake-in-the-grass family lawyer Domenico De Sole, an underwritten role in which [Jack Huston](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jack-huston/) barely registers — except to the extent that he resembles Tom Ford way more than does Reeve Carney, who briefly turns up in that role. In the aforementioned St. Moritz scene, Patrizia responds to a question about the meringue treats she’s brought with a rambling monologue about a Paris trip with Maurizio. “You’re filling the story full of unnecessary details,” he tells her in a cutting dismissal. “They just want to know where you got the macaroons, sweetie.” In a sense that’s what Johnson and Bentivegna’s screenplay does. Given that this is a movie and not an ’80s miniseries, it’s too cluttered with busy plot tangents that keep taking us away from the macaroon of Patrizia and Maurizio’s crumbling relationship. Or maybe it’s just that the film’s energy plummets whenever Gaga’s off-camera. Sure, it’s moderately interesting to learn of Aldo’s tax-evasion travails and the corporate chicanery that nudges him and Paolo out of the company when Maurizio partners with Bahrain finance group Investcorp. But Scott can’t squeeze much dramatic juice out of these developments. The same goes for the makeover after Gucci has become démodé and Texan wunderkind Ford (Carney) is brought in to revolutionize the house style — complete with a mercifully brief appearance from a bad Anna Wintour impersonator. Despite frantic snatches of opera lobbed in among the random ’80s tracks by Eurythmics, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, etc., a sluggishness frequently creeps into the film, even when it should be gathering suspense as the anticipated (and anticlimactic) shooting of Maurizio approaches. Scott, who was first attached to the project in 2006, seems convinced he’s making something akin to The Godfather. But instead the action keeps sliding into inadvertent campiness, never more so than when Patrizia and Pina are negotiating with the hitmen. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski mixes glitz with a faded period look to underwhelming effect, but Arthur Max’s production design and Janty Yates’ costumes provide plenty of lavish detail. As does Gaga, who commands attention in a vehicle much more solely dependent on her than [A Star Is Born](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/a-star-is-born-review-1137601/), where the spotlight was shared equally with Bradley Cooper. Her work here may be chewy, but she’s enthrallingly alive in the role, bringing heat to Patrizia’s hunger and growing desperation in an otherwise muddled movie that seldom ignites. ## Full credits Distributor: United Artists Releasing Production companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, BRON Studios, Scott Free Productions Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Camille Cottin, Reeve Carney Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Becky Johnson, Roberto Bentivegna; story by Johnson, based on the book by Sara Gay Forden Producers: Ridley Scott, Giannina Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Mark Huffam Executive producers: Kevin Ulrich, Megan Ellison, Aidan Elliott, Marco Valerio Pugini, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth Director of photography: Dariusz Wolski Production designer: Arthur Max Costume designer: Janty Yates Editor: Claire Simpson Music: Harry Gregson-Williams Casting: Kate Rhodes James Rated R, 2 hours 37 minutes ## THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day [Subscribe Sign Up](https://cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com/signup/)
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