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House of Gucci

Trevor Lynch

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House of Gucci is a highly entertaining combination of comedy, tragedy, and farce, tracing the decline of the Gucci fashion empire from an Italian family business to a global capitalist brand.

House of Gucci would have been the best Martin Scorsese movie in years — if it hadn’t been directed by Ridley Scott. It has all the Scorsese touches: lots of Italians (albeit Italian-Italians rather than Italian-Americans), a plush running time, studies of characters who are seldom admirable but always interesting, excellent acting from a distinguished cast, Al Pacino, and a meticulous, nostalgia-infused reconstruction of another era, this time the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, a time that seems impossibly glamorous, wholesome, and white compared with the present.

Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in 1921 and passed on to his sons upon his death in 1953. The film considerably simplifies the Gucci family tree, focusing on two of Guccio’s sons, Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) and Aldo (Al Pacino), plus Rodolfo’s son Maurizio (Adam Driver) and Aldo’s son Paulo (an unrecognizable Jared Leto).

Maurizio is depicted as a nerd who is targeted for seduction and marriage by Patrizia Reggiani. Brilliantly portrayed by Lady Gaga, Patrizia is a social climber from a less wealthy, less distinguished background. Rodolfo dismisses her as a gold-digger, but she wasn’t. She stayed with Maurizio even after his father cut him off. But she really was a social climber with a whole cluster of personality disorders. At first, her ambition and lack of scruples served her husband well. She had a child and helped reconcile Maurizio with his father just in time to collect his inheritance. This guaranteed her enormous wealth and prestige. She enjoyed a lavish lifestyle that is only hinted at in the movie.

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But Patrizia could not leave well enough alone. She egged her husband on to take a role in the company. Why in God’s name would you want to run a company if you are not cut out for it, especially if you already have more money than you could spend in two lifetimes? (When Maurizio Gucci died in 1995, his estate was worth $400 million.) Then Patrizia created a conflict between Maurizio and his uncle Aldo, allying with Aldo’s idiot son Paulo. Aldo eventually ended up in jail for tax evasion. Then Patrizia turned on Paulo, first urging him to pursue his own design work, then hitting him with a cease and desist for using the family name. Eventually, Maurizio went into business with some shady Iraqis who bought Aldo and Paulo out of the company. Once in charge, Maurizio proved to be a terrible businessman. He cut back on profitable but down-market product lines while expensing his increasingly lavish lifestyle to the company. Eventually, he was forced to sell his shares, leaving the business Gucci in name only.

Patrizia turned Maurizio from a tongue-tied nerd and wallflower to a self-confident jerk. But he resented her interference in his family. He also found her social-climbing increasingly grating. This is beautifully depicted in a scene in Switzerland where Patrizia is reduced to gibbering insecurity by Maurizio’s old-moneyed school chums. Finally, Maurizio turned his new-found self-confidence against Patrizia, first separating from her then divorcing. He soon discovered, however, that there’s only one thing worse than a scheming wife working “for” him — namely a scheming ex-wife working against him. If you don’t already know the story, I won’t spoil it for you.

House of Gucci most resembles Scorsese’s Casino, in which a quasi-autistic nerd marries a femme fatale, although in Casino the villainess is a junkie and petty grifter, whereas in House of Gucci, she is the crazy ex-girlfriend from hell.

House of Gucci is great filmmaking that does not insult the intelligence, taste, or identity of white filmgoers. There are no politically correct messages. There is no tendentious “diversity” casting. House of Gucci is Ridley Scott’s best movie since Alien: Covenant and one of the best movies of 2021. I recommend it highly.

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  1. Alex says:
    December 24, 2021 at 4:09 am

    It looks like I know which movie I will be watching next, I wasn’t really interested prior to reading your review. Even though I thought the performance by Matt Damon was subpar I actually enjoyed The Last Duel from Ridley Scott which was also released this year

    1. Lord Shang says:
      December 24, 2021 at 2:54 pm

      I saw The Last Duel as well (also with this guy Adam Driver; why he’s a huge star, I’m not sure; I also wonder about his racial background – part Amerindian?). I thought it was engrossing, even if not quite the action-laden type of picture for which Scott is famous.

      1. Alex says:
        December 26, 2021 at 4:50 am

        I don’t understand his appeal either. I think you are correct  he does look part Amerindian. He did enlist in the Marines after 9/11 which is an unusual background for a typical Hollywood actor .  He was also in the mostly ignored Scorsese film, Silence, which I thought was also a good film.

         

        1. Lord Shang says:
          December 26, 2021 at 2:37 pm

          Silence was a great film, as was the novel of the same title, by the rare Catholic Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo, upon which it was based. The book was very thought-provoking (main theme: why did Christianity fail so utterly to take root in Japan?), especially if you have an interest in Christian matters. I’d had it in my library for years unread, until hearing about the upcoming film persuaded me finally to read it in advance of seeing the story onscreen.

           

    2. Philippe Régniez says:
      December 24, 2021 at 3:21 pm

      I haven’t watched House of Gucci yet. The Last Duel didn’t work for me. On the one hand, the film tried to describe a reality far removed from ours, with strict rules that shaped the lives and minds of women (some sort of inferno), and on the other hand the main actress behaved like any pituca I would meet at a local polo game.

  2. Lord Shang says:
    December 24, 2021 at 3:55 pm

    Good concise review of a film I enjoyed, even if I generally dislike films that depict fortunate people being self-destructive or wasteful with their money. I suspect many nationalists or regime Dissidents resent having to work at stupid jobs beneath our cognitive (and creative) levels solely for the money, especially when we would so much rather be paid to do vital and needed intellectual or political work, and are aware of how many lesser talents are paid (often by us rightist taxpayers, too!) to exercise their “minds”, enjoying that privilege simply because of their race and/or regime-supporting ideology. Forget $400 million! How nice it would be to have $4 million, plenty for any non-sybaritic intellectual or ideologue to live a comfortable life while having all the free time necessary to pursue one’s passions, like preventing white extinction (which is a hell of a lot more meaningful that what I spend my working days doing – for the paycheck only).

    I had no idea that Maurizio had that much money at death. This brings up a question. Why was he blowing through so much Gucci corporate money to fund his lavish lifestyle (Lamborghini, etc) if he had that amount of his own? The film alleged at one point that he would receive $150million buyout (presumably considerable Italian taxes of some kind would have been assessed). So he must have had quite a bit of his own even before he was forcibly bought out (I understand that that $150mil could/would have been in early 90s dollars, and perhaps that $400mil figure is fairly contemporary; still, there is a considerable gap between the buyout figure and the final estate).

    The atmosphere was excellent, and the acting was solid, but I found the plot a bit confusing at times. Ditto character motivations. I didn’t see Patrizia as quite such a villainess. Social climber, yes, but only a bit of Lady MacBeth. I didn’t grasp the reasons for the crumbling of their marriage, either. She seemed more like the wronged party.

    But it was a good film, and certainly brought back happy memories of less ‘diverse’ times, ones that I, too, lived through, mostly as a young adult.

  3. Peter Quint says:
    December 27, 2021 at 6:39 am

    Watch “The Last Duel,” it has much going for it.

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