Guy Ritchie is the director of the Netflix series THE GENTLEMEN. A British filmmaker, Ritchie's filmography includes cult classics such as LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (1998), SNATCH (2000), and ROCKNROLLA (2008). However, he is best known for directing the two Sherlock Holmes films, one from 2009 and the other from 2011, both starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. His distinctive style makes his films unique, and his characters and settings immerse the viewer in a world where straight lines are an illusion and everything that can go wrong, goes even worse. Among his narrative skills is the ability to transform calamitous situations into comedy, turning potential aversions to his stories into a desire to watch them and, if desired, to watch them again.

THE GENTLEMEN is a humorous social critique reminiscent of the picaresque genre, in which Golden Age Spain questioned the foundations of imperial life. This television series features an English gentleman, a duke, who, to settle his aristocratic relatives' debts, must resort to cultivating marijuana, all while maintaining his class prestige, albeit by employing underworld methods. As in other works by Guy Ritchie, social groups with values different from the established norms, such as gypsies or unconventional religious communities, impose their rules, writing them in blood in the manual of good manners. Although in THE GENTLEMEN the protagonist has the bearing of an idealized hero, his world is more akin to that of SNATCH, the film by the same director, and evokes Emir Kusturica's BLACK CAT WHITE CAT, a film from the late 1990s.

With THE GENTLEMEN, Guy Richie reminds us that truth can also be found in the strange, the bizarre, the extravagant, and the strange. A truth that spills over the plate, overflowing the glass, staining the tablecloth, and dripping onto the diners' clothes. Thanks to his style, which breaks the narrative's linearity, employs slow motion that alters the natural flow of time, and places the camera at unexpected angles, the director keeps the viewer on their toes. With these tools, the film becomes captivating, even though it deals with the depressing drama of impoverishment. The director makes it clear that the aesthetics must be consistent with the narrative and that, regardless of the content's intellectual nature, it must be guided by the eye of an artist, as Guy Richie himself is.