House of Gucci (15)
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Lady Gaga, with her customary penchant for shrinking into the shadows, turned up at the London premiere of Sir Ridley Scott’s new movie House of Gucci two weeks ago swathed in a diaphanous purple gown (Gucci, naturally) with a train long enough to satisfy Great Western Railway.
And the frock, it turned out, matched her acting.
Gaga, now a veteran leading lady after 2018’s exhilarating A Star Is Born, gives a big purple showstopper of a performance in House of Gucci.
The singer has revealed that she drew on her teenage experience of sexual assault to portray Patrizia Reggiani, the woman with more front than Milan cathedral who in 1972 married Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), heir to the fashion empire, and later, the year after their 1994 divorce, had him murdered by a hitman.
Lady Gaga, with her customary penchant for shrinking into the shadows, turned up at the London premiere of Sir Ridley Scott’s new movie House of Gucci two weeks ago swathed in a diaphanous purple gown (Gucci, naturally) with a train long enough to satisfy Great Western Railway
It is certainly a heck of a story – and Scott has assembled a heck of a cast (also featuring Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Jared Leto and Salma Hayek).
Irons plays Rodolfo Gucci, the elegant patriarch who is aghast when his bright, affable son Maurizio marries the low-born Patrizia (so frightfully unsophisticated that she mistakes a family Klimt for a Picasso), considering her a gold-digger.
In truth, she’s not. It’s a genuine love match which turns sour.
With Rodolfo assailed by terminal illness (signalled in that time-honoured cinematic way by coughing blood into a hankie), attention switches to his New York-based brother Aldo (Pacino), whose own son, Paolo (Leto), is entirely hapless.
The singer has revealed that she drew on her teenage experience of sexual assault to portray Patrizia Reggiani, the woman with
