The film surpassed expectations at the box office, grossing $ 22 million during its opening weekend in the United States.
Members of the Gucci family, a well-known fashion dynasty, expressed dissatisfaction with the new film House of Gucci, “The Gucci House”, by British director Ridley Scott.
In a statement released Monday, the heirs of Aldo Gucci, who ran the fashion house for 33 years until the mid-1980s, said they were aggrieved that they were not consulted by the filmmakers.
“The film’s production didn’t bother to consult the heirs before rating Aldo Gucci and members of the Gucci family. as criminals, ignorant and insensitive to the world around them, giving the protagonists and events a tone and an attitude that never belonged to them, ”the statement said.
“This is extremely painful from a human point of view and an insult to the legacy on which the brand is currently based”Adds the statement.
Scott’s film stars Al Pacino as Aldo Gucci, Jeremy Irons as his brother Rodolfo and Adam Driver as his nephew Maurizio, who took over the company until he was assassinated in 1995 by a hit man hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani. (played by Lady Gaga).
The film is based on Sara Gay Forden’s book titled The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed(“The Gucci House: A Sensational Story of Murder, Insanity, Glamor and Greed”).
The family denounces not only the film itself, but also the statements of the cast members who, according to the statement, appear to defend Reggiani.
“Even more questionable is the reconstruction that becomes disconcerting almost to the limit of paradox when it comes to suggesting an indulgent tone towards a woman who, definitively condemned for having been the instigator of the murder of Maurizio Gucci, is drawn not only in the film, but also in the statements of the cast members, as a victim trying to survive in a macho, masculine corporate culture”.
Rather, the statement added, the fashion house was “an inclusive company” during its 70-year history under the direct control of the Gucci family, and in the 1980s, in which much of the business takes place. film, there were several women in positions of responsibility.
The statement ends by crossing out the film as an insult.
“Gucci is a family that lives honoring the work of its ancestors, whose memory does not deserve to be disturbed to stage a show that is false and does not do justice to its protagonists”.
Family members also ensure that they reserve “the right to take measures to protect the name, image and dignity” of themselves and their loved ones.
Patricia Gucci, Aldo’s only daughter, had already accused Scott of “stealing a family’s identity for profit.”
The director of the film rejected these criticisms.
In statements to the program Today on BBC Radio 4, Scott said: “You have to remember that one Gucci was murdered and another went to jail for tax evasion, so they can’t talk to me about making a profit.”
“As soon as these actions take place, they become part of the public domain.”.
The film surpassed expectations at the box office, grossing $ 22 million during its opening weekend in the United States.
Patrizia Reggiani, who was released from prison five years ago, had already expressed discomfort that those involved in the film did not try to consult it.
“I am quite upset that Lady Gaga is playing me in the new Ridley Scott movie without having had the consideration and sensitivity to come and meet me,” Reggiani told the Italian news agency ANSA in March.
Lady Gaga, for her part, claimed to have felt that meeting with Reggiani was not necessary, as she told the magazine Vogue.
“I only felt that I could really do justice to this story if I approached it with the gaze of a curious woman interested in a journalistic spirit to be able to read between the lines what was happening in the scenes of the film,” said the artist.
“This means that no one was going to tell me who Patrizia Gucci was. Not even Patrizia Gucci ”.
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