The temporal errors of "House of Gucci"

House of Gucci is the perfect representation of cinematic hot mess: a melò/soap opera where a group of Americans play a family of Italians involved in what was perhaps the biggest media epic of our national gossip for the entire course of the 80s and 90s. It is natural that, in writing the film, many passages were simplified and distorted, creating temporal errors large and small – some of which became almost viral in the Italian media. One of the most successful ones, brought to light by Giuliano Ferrara, concerns Il Foglio, a newspaper he founded in 1996, and therefore a year after the death of Maurizio Gucci, which Maurizio Gucci is quietly reading in the film in 1994. «It can't get better than this», commented Ferrara on Twitter. 

Beyond the small nuances on the relationship between Maurizio and Patrizia, then, which also concern the modalities of their meeting and their personal dynamics at the gates of divorce, the most serious mistake made by the film is to obliterate the figure of Dawn Mello, creative director of the brand from 1989 until 1994 who was then the real responsible for Tom Ford's scouting,  which in '95 replaced it obtaining a huge success with the public. Other errors scattered throughout the film, in addition to the story of Paolo Gucci, greatly deformed, are also the background of Patrizia Reggiani, who was not at all poor but came from a family of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Beyond the simplifications needed in every blockbuster film like House of Gucci (after all, Ridley Scott is the same director who made St. Peter's's Dome appear in the skyline of ancient Rome in Gladiator) the many debates that have concerned the film, including the one about the temporal error of Il Foglio, could have been easily avoided if at least part of the film's production had been followed by Italy – let's not forget that,  inaccuracies aside, the most annoying thing about the whole movie is hearing Aldo Gucci greet with a "Good evening" in broad daylight.