WOW!!!
This movie surprised the heck out of me as I wasn't really expecting
much. I am not into fashion (just look at my pictures!! lol) and wouldn't know a Tim Gunn from a Heidi Klum. Labels aren't my thing just as designer clothes aren't. Skinny models strutting down run ways do nothing for me.

Do
you want to know how the really rich live? Yes, this is the documentary
to see diamonds on the ears of a pet pug (one of 5 pugs!) See life
aboard 152 foot yacht and don't miss the villas andmansions all over
the continent. There are beautiful dresses made for, and on, beautiful
women and the men's clothes aren't anything to sneer at.

Parties
aren't just parties, they are galas and stars from all over the world
attend them just as they attend Valentino's run way shows and the
dresses are works of art and how they are made is an art in itself
with, literally, thousands of sequins sewn on by hand.

With
all this the fact that this is A LOVE STORY is what really threw me.
Anyone against same sex marriages just has to see how these two men
love each other, most of the time with just a look. Giancarlo Giammetti is THE man behind the legend. Without him Valentino would not have
gotten where he was. From the moment they met 4+ decades ago they have
been a team in private and in business. Giancarlo was the man behind the business who allowed the designer to concentrate on designing.

Being
'old school' they are not very demonstrative in public and very seldom,
if ever, say, "I love you" but all you have to do is look at Giancarlo as he looks at Valentino or listen to Valentino receiving the Legion Of Honor expressing his feelings for Giancarlo and you, as an audience member watching the film, will experience love between two soul mates.

And,
trust me, when they 'bicker', with Giancarlo remarking about Valentino
being 'too tan' or Valentino talks about Giancarlo '3 layers of fat'
they sound like every, and any, long married couple you might know.

There
are two shots in the film that took me back to my days of a gay young
man who saw pictures of 'roommates' (they lived together for a number
of years before they got married to women and lived together between
and after divorces and marriages!) Cary Grant and Randolph Scott. I
think any young gay person seeing this documentary will find the hope I
found 60 years ago.

This is a documentary for people who like fashion, labels, excesses of the rich and famous, runway shows, pugs, temperamental
designers, a nasty seamstress, beautiful homes and a yacht, a legend
being catered to and other designers bowing to a master but most of all
THIS IS A FILM FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER BEEN IN LOVE OR WANTS TO BE IN
LOVE OR WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE LOVE EXCEPT BY SEEING THIS!!