“House of Gucci”: Ridley Scott responds to criticism of the Gucci family – The HuffPost

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CINEMA – The hatchet is not buried. This Monday, November 22, Ridley Scott for the first time returned to the criticisms he received from the heirs of the family Gucci about his latest movie House of Gucci, in theaters in France from this Wednesday.

In an interview with the BBC, the 83-year-old American director recalls “that a member of Gucci was assassinated and another went to prison for tax evasion”. “You can’t talk to me about making a profit. As soon as you do that, you become part of the public domain ”, he denounced in the program. Today.

Worried about the footage of the shoot circulating on social networks, Patrizia Gucci spoke in April to talk about his disappointment. “I speak on behalf of the family,” she told Associated Press. They steal the identity of an entire family to make a profit, to increase the income of the Hollywood system. Our family has an identity, a private life. We can talk about anything, but there is a line that should not be crossed. ”

Ridley Scott’s feature film is inspired by Sara Gay Forden’s book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamor, and Greed (2000). It tells the story of the assassination of Maurizio Gucci in 1995, the heir to the founder of the prestigious Italian label. A murder ordered by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, in order to benefit from the latter’s shares before he remarries with Paola Franchi.

“Big, small with sideburns”

According to Patrizia Gucci, the account of the book is not exact and it is in this sense that she would have tried to get in touch with Giannina Facio, the wife of Ridley Scott. The latter met some members of the Italian family in the early 2000s to discuss another project. The production has never returned to her, assures the heiress, worried.

What’s more, the appearance of two of the heroes of the film, played by Al Pacino, as Aldo Gucci, and Jared Leto, as Paolo Gucci, does not seem to his liking. . “Like all the men in the Gucci family, my grandfather was a very handsome man. He had blue eyes, was tall and very elegant, she recalled. His performer Al Pacino is already not very tall, and this photo shows him big, small, with sideburns, really very ugly. It’s shameful, it doesn’t look like him at all. ”

While the author of the book said she was delighted to see Lady Gaga in the lead role, the person she plays, Patrizia Reggiani, was also disappointed not to have been contacted once by the star in sight. of a meeting, however brief it may be. Despite these divisions, the film will indeed be released this Wednesday, November 24 at the cinema.

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