Gaga is good enough, mostly because her character is given the closest the script offers to some sort of motivational consideration.
Scott’s direction is all over the place and he never decides what aspect of this potentially delicious camp soap opera he wants to emphasise, instead pushing the narrative forward as quickly as possible without getting bogged down in details. The furious Patrizia, in cahoots with her trusted psychic Pia (Selma Hayek), comes up with a haphazard plan to hire shoddy hitmen to enact her revenge, which brings us to the final 10 minutes of the film that swiftly dispenses with her trial and conviction for murder. He divorces his wife and spends the family millions like he’s in a luxury version of a shopping trolley dash. It’s at this point that Scott gives up on even trying to offer anything close to motivation for the characters’ actions, as Maurizio, having been convinced by his dinner-theatre Lady Macbeth to take the throne, soon tires of her and starts an affair with a leggy, glamorous blonde.
When Rodolfo dies things get messy as Patrizia connives to convince Maurizio to cut his uncle and cousin out of the future of the Gucci empire. Rodolfo’s brother Aldo (Pacino), who’s running the Gucci empire, coaxes Patrizia and Maurizio back into the family fold because his own son Paulo (a heavily made-up, unrecognisable and madly over-the-top Jared Leto) is a complete idiot.
Maurizio shacks up with Patrizia and becomes a blue-collar worker washing trucks and having steamy lunchtime sex with his fiancée in the office. Soon Maurizio is introducing his new love to his sickly father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) who’s initially charmed by Patrizia - but when his son tells him he plans to marry her he declares her a gold digger and promptly disowns Maurizio. Patrizia makes sure to bump into him a few days later at the university library to give him her number - in lipstick on the windshield of his Vespa. The story “goes-a-something-a-like-a-dis:” Maurizio Gucci (Driver) is a carefree, wealthy, smart, young law student who lets his hair down one night in 1978 and goes to a party where he’s immediately uncomfortable and tries to shrink into the background only to find himself the focus of the attention of a fun-loving, young trucking company secretary named Patrizia Reggiani (Gaga).
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