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Australian Arts

Jeremy Irons in House of Gucci

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

Any attempt to fictionalise the Gucci story runs into the same difficulties as Ridley Scott’s handsome and absorbing film, House of Gucci, because there are so many improbabilities built into this story of ruthlessness and betrayal that they cry out to be eliminated even though they are true. Patrizia (Lady Gaga), the girl from nowhere, marries Maurizio (Adam Driver) and his father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) thinks she’s a gold digger.

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