Is House of Gucci just a Dallas remake with Italian sauce?

Il y a déjà un an et demi, nous revenions dans nos colonnes sur l’assassinat de Maurizio Gucci, le petit fils du fondateur de la marque du même nom, sauvagement abattu le 27 mars 1995 sous le porche de son bureau milanais.At the time, the subject and the casting of the next film by Ridley Scott had just been revealed and the world was preparing to sink into an unparalleled hysteria.Over the months, everyone has ecstatic as a fashionable fashion kid who tackles her first luxury bag each time a photo of Lady Gaga in Italian Ultra Bling was circulating on social networks.And Wednesday, the big day has finally arrived: House of Gucci is playing in French cinemas.And the result ultimately has the effect of a bellows that falls.

We know the director of Alien for his sense of show, illusion and horror.Its capacity, sometimes, to arouse in us a deep repulsion.There, he decided, out of the desire for sulphurous, to focus his story on the Gucci house at the time of heartbreak.The one where the clan who saw his small family business become an empire tore like a pack of pit bulls in cage.But the filmmaker seems to experience any empathy or repugnance with regard to these rich predators.He delivers a smooth picture of an exciting story, making House of Gucci a machine that is certainly well oiled but devoid of all perversion.It stages low blows that the sadistic of succession give themselves with much more subtlety and meanness ...