The House of Guc­ci trail­er show­cas­es a full range of Ital­ian(?) accents

No rest for Rid­ley Scott through­out the remain­der of 2021, with the direc­tor star­ing down the bar­rel of two major the­atri­cal releas­es in as many months. Octo­ber sees the US pre­mière of his peri­od epic The Last Duel, shown off last week with a glossy new pre­view, and now the same goes for his slat­ed Novem­ber title House of Guc­ci.

The new trail­er bris­tles with avarice, glam­our, intrigue – and the full gamut of Ital­ian accents enact­ed by the pre­dom­i­nant­ly Amer­i­can cast, which range from heavy-yet-plau­si­ble (Lady Gaga) to the Mario Bros-esque (Jared Leto). The explo­sive reac­tion on social media antic­i­pates a film of such over­reach­ing extrav­a­gance as to bor­der on camp, and while that hasn’t his­tor­i­cal­ly been Scott’s purview, the sub­ject mat­ter could super­sede his usu­al strait-lacedness.

Sig­no­ra Gaga leads the cast as Patrizia Reg­giani, one-time wife to fam­i­ly head Mau­r­izio Guc­ci (Adam Dri­ver), now noto­ri­ous for order­ing his mur­der. Her ruth­less­ness and taste for the high life alien­at­ed the oth­er mem­bers of la famiglia Guc­ci (Jere­my Irons and a new­ly cor­pu­lent Leto), ulti­mate­ly cre­at­ing a schism when she got her hooks into the heir apparent.

As the leaked pho­tos from the set already sug­gest­ed, no expense has been spared on the ​’70s and ​’80s set-dress­ing, from a vis­it to hedo­nist hide­away Stu­dio 54 to the expect­ed­ly lux­u­ri­ous cos­tum­ing, haute cou­ture going so far over the top that the top van­ish­es from sight. It all befits the oper­at­ic act­ing style of Gaga her­self, gun­ning for that act­ing Oscar she couldn’t man­age to clinch dur­ing the A Star Is Born sea­son, while Dri­ver under­plays things as her accom­mo­dat­ing husband.

Though this film seems like the kind of star­ry, big-name selec­tion that would have land­ed at the Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val in a nor­mal year, no fall fes­ti­val debut has been set for the buzzed-about thriller, nonethe­less a key point in 2021’s remain­ing movie cal­en­dar. Let the con­ver­sa­tion begin as to whether the assort­ed accent work is good, bad, good-bad, or bad-good.

House of Guc­ci will come to cin­e­mas in the US on 24 Novem­ber, and then the UK on 26 November.