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    <i>The Assassination of Gianni Versace</i>'s Flawed Beauty

    FX’s <em>American Crime Story</em> uses lavish detail to tell of an iconic designer’s murder—and what it said about society.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Jan 18, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Jeff Daly / FX

    tries to test the viewer’s appetite for classical beauty. In long, slow, largely wordless sequences, Ryan Murphy’s camera pans over the ornate tiling of the Versace villa, over the sun-kissed pastel facades of ’90s Miami Beach, and over the speedo-clad bodies that inhabited both. The lens will swoop and dive through a cavernous club populated by shirtless men in angel wings, or it will hover, gnat-like, right up against Penélope Cruz’s face. Often, in these moments, the sound of opera

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