Tom Ford suspects that the Lady Gaga and Adam Driver-led House of Gucci will be a hit despite the film rivaling “nighttime soap Dynasty for subtlety.”.

At another, Ford wonders whether he saw some kind of SNL skit based on true events. “At times when Al Pacino as Aldo Gucci and Jared Leto as his son Paolo Gucci were on screen, I was not completely sure that I wasn’t watching a Saturday Night Live version of the tale,” he wrote.

The fashion designer, who worked for four of the years covered in Scott’s film with Maurizio before he was murdered “just steps away from my office in Milan,” says that he never received a toast from the former head of the Gucci fashion house as depicted in the film

Having known “many of the other players in this saga” and being interviewed for the book on which the film is based, Ford conceded it was “hard for me to divorce reality from the glossy, heavily lacquered soap opera that I witnessed on-screen.”

Despite his criticisms, Ford does compliment a number of the film’s performances and offers emotional reflections on the film

Regardless of quality, ultimately the experience of watching the film, Ford says, was difficult