Brunello: The Gracious Visionary review – fawning portrait of the king of cashmere

Giuseppe Tornatore traces Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli’s life from poor farming family to billion-dollar empire in a sentimental vanity project Brunello Cucinelli is the Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar empire. He’s known as the “king of cashmere”, which would have been a good title for this two-hour-long film, commissioned by Cucinelli about himself, directed by Oscar winning film-maker Giuseppe Tornatore. Instead, “The Gracious Visionary” gives an inkling as to the kind of film we’re dealing with – a vanity project with a capital “V”, capita

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