A very fine cast of American actors speaking with Italian accents ensures that, despite its length, there's always something interesting happening on screen.

Isn't that all we really want from the movies? Brain soft, Gucci soothing, and that's all she wrote.

Lady Gaga makes an immediate and indelible impression as Patrizia Reggiani, the future Signora Gucci, in Ridley Scott's film about the Guccis' fractured history.

So wrapped up is he in the film’s plot points that Scott fails to make an interesting comment on anything, except the most basic truisms, so parroted that they have lost all meaning: wealth corrupts, money is power, status is everything.