The highly anticipated Ridley Scott movie doesn’t remotely live up to the hype. (Possible spoilers.)
to aid her transformation from Italian American to Italian) puts Marlon Brando’s famous method acting to shame.
The scenes of their courtship, as Maurizio falls for Reggiani, are sweet and give a sense of the family dynamics she was marrying into. Gaga chews up her minor scenes with vulnerability and intensityThe problem is her role seems ancillary to the action at best, especially for a movie taglined “Her Rise Became Their Fall.”
Though the guys make castration jokes about Patrizia , in fact, there’s no real sense of What Patrizia Wants. She turns to a TV psychic as her confidant who uses bromides to explain Patrizia’s motivations: “You want everything.” But we don’t really see ambition in Gaga’s Reggiani, flattened through the condescending Hollywood sympathetic woman factory.
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