‘Ferrari’
Manager: Michael Mann
Artists: Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley
Year: 2023
Premiere: 9/2/24
★★★
film What Michael Mann wrote about the racing driver and founder of the team under his own name, Enzo Ferrari, is not a typical ‘biography’. It merely shows one year in the character’s life, 1957, and it’s not exactly the brightest or most successful year of his career. Rather the opposite. Imbued with a certain rugged anti-hero status, starring Ferrari Adam Driver is at many turning points in his life. He still maintains the air of a reckless and courageous, at the same time despotic and somewhat arrogant businessman, but apart from the pressure exerted by other companies such as Maserati and Ford, the threat of economic bankruptcy and the breaking point of his double life with two different women, the rise of the star, which is obligatory in every ‘biopic’, gives us Let him tell you about one of the dark areas of his existence, not his complete fall.
It’s not Mann’s best film. ‘Heat’ is under ‘Dilemma’ or ‘Collateral’but precision shooting aside, it is interesting that it rejects ostentatiousness along with its capacity for depth of field: everything happens in homes, offices, garages and pits, there are only two races, the second of which is as tragic as that year’s race, the Mille Miglia, which Mann films with relative restraint. with a devastating accident.