Ridley Scott’s superbly performed House of Gucci gives every one of its A-list actors a showcase scene or two. Here is Adam Driver as Maur...
Ridley Scott’s superbly performed House of Gucci gives every one of its A-list actors a showcase scene or two. Here is Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci blissfully playing football with truckers, a far cry from the gilded life he has led thus far. Here is Al Pacino as Maurizio’s uncle Aldo Gucci, beside himself with loathing and rage as he meets investors to negotiate a future the fashion label he built with his brother Rodolfo.
Jared Leto, as Aldo’s son Paolo, comically plays up the Hollywood stereotype of the flamboyant Italian scion but personifies poignancy in the moment he confronts his cousin over a business dispute. Jeremy Irons, as Rodolfo, is in the movie long enough to savagely put Aldo in his place.
Unlike the others, Lady Gaga, as Patrizia Reggiani, doesn’t have a showstopper scene. Rather, Gaga owns every moment she is on the screen. Gaga’s full-bodied portrayal of Maurizio’s wife, who was convicted of ordering his murder, towers over House of Gucci. She is the movie’s most uncontrollable, irresistible element.
Gaga often packs a spectrum of emotions into a single sequence. Tremulous in love, ruthless in ambition and anguished in rejection, Patrizia erases herself for Maurizio and his company as surely as Gaga gives herself up to...
