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HOUSE OF GUCCI – Review by Susan Granger

November 30, 2021December 4, 2021 Susan Granger Adam Driver, al pacino, House of Gucci, Jared Leto, jeremy irons, lady gaga, ridley scott

Ridley Scott’s extravagant melodrama House of Gucci delves into what led to the 1995 murder of Maurizio Gucci, scion of the Milan-based fashion family.

This sordid saga of love, backstabbing and betrayal begins as Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), an accountant at her father’s trucking company, sets her sights on bespectacled Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), whom she meets at a disco party. Although he’s smitten, his suave, snobbish father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) spots her as a crass, social-climbing gold-digger.

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HOUSE OF GUCCI – Review by Liz Braun

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 Liz Braun Adam Driver, al pacino, House of Gucci, Jared Leto, lady gaga, ridley scott

Every bit as plastique and fabulous as a knock-off designer handbag, House of Gucci is a wildly entertaining soap opera about people fighting over money, from director Ridley Scott. .Based on a real-life story of greed and betrayal and tragedy, in the telling here it is busy and beautiful to look at. There are a couple of leaps in the storytelling that don’t quite add up and a complaint might be lodged about some of the more melodramatic bits — but it’s all so visually dazzling and fun to watch that none of these quibbles add up to much.

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HOUSE OF GUCCI – Review by Diane Carson

November 20, 2021November 21, 2021 Diane Carson Adam Driver, al pacino, House of Gucci, Jared Leto, jeremy irons, lady gaga, ridley scott

House of Gucci chronicles unpleasant events regarding this fashion brand. Based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, the four elements emphasized in her title pinpoint the essence of the drama. Announced on screen as “inspired by true events,” it has, nevertheless, received extensive Gucci family criticism, the book and the film. No wonder, for no one comes off admirably depicted.

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THE IRISHMAN – Review by Susan Granger

December 5, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments al pacino, jimmy hoffa, joe pesce, martin scorsese, netflix, robert de niro, the irishman

Martin Scorsese has created a sprawling, three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic, teaming Robert De Niro with Al Pacino (for the first time),

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THE IRISHMAN – Review by Brandy McDonnell

November 28, 2019November 29, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments al pacino, joe Pesci, martin scorsese, netflix, robert de niro, the irishman

Even by their superlative standards, De Niro, Pacino and Pesci – the latter came out of retirement at Scorsese’s behest, give stellar performances, and Industrial Light & Magic’s de-aging effects show just how far that cinematic technology has come in a short time.

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THE IRISHMAN – Review by. Martha K Baker

November 21, 2019 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments al pacino, Irishman, jimmy hoffa, joe Pesci, martin scorsese, robert de nero

“The Irishman” is a nearly perfect movie. From dialogues to monologues in Steven Zailian’s script, from Rodrigo Prieto’s camera angles and Robbie Robertson’s music to vintage scenes designed by Bob Shaw. Martin Scorsese has directed a movie that can be described only as brilliant. Except for one thing: it is based on a fable.

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Martin Scorsese on THE IRISHMAN, Crime and Corruption in His Cinema – Jennifer Merin interviews

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments al pacino, frank sheeran, jimmy hoffa, martin scorsese, netflix, robert deniro, the irishman

Martin Scorsese’s latest film, The Irishman, releasing November 1 in theaters and available on Netflix on November 27, is the director’s eighth foray into the world of crime and corruption. Perhaps because The Irishman’s truth-based narrative is about relatively recent events that actually changed the course of history, the engrossingly complex, superbly structured and thoroughly gripping crime thriller serves not only as an intense decades-spanning character study, but also as a provocative sociopolitical primer. In our present era’s predicament about finding truth in media, this is a history-making film about historical events. Read what Scorsese has to say about truth in narrative.