House of Gucci (2021)
Directed by Ridley Scott
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
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To make yet another Scorsese reference… the end of Casino, when you see the old casinos all being blown up on the strip, as they were… that is what we should feel in that scene with Aldo.
The whole thing wants to be Sharon Stone’s character in Casino , and it is, and it isn’t.
Other times, it's the chaotic backbiting of Casino.
We don’t want to return to the days of The Hunt For Red October and the extreme suspensions of disbelief needed to convince ourselves that Sean Connery was Russian.
Though not quite reaching Crazy Rich Asians levels of opulence, the combination of old money Italian excess and the 1980s penchant for overindulgence results in the film’s singular visual aesthetic – abundant with 80s designer fashion constantly clashing with more traditional Italian tendencies.
It’s a verbal variety of Oscar bait, an elocutionary version of wrestling the bear, the effortful stunt business that won Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar for “The Revenant.”
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Like 2019’s Knives Out, House of Gucci is a perfect piece of Thanksgiving weekend counterprogramming: a raucous, deeply silly tale about a family just as dysfunctional as yours– but probably better looking.