"Ferrari" delivers on style and speed but even Adam Driver can't fuel this biopic with passion
1 year, 3 months ago

"Ferrari" delivers on style and speed but even Adam Driver can't fuel this biopic with passion

Salon  

Director Michael Mann’s ambitious biopic, “Ferrari,” takes place in 1957, when Enzo Ferrari is having a series of personal and professional crises. Mann’s film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on Brock Yates’ book, “Enzo Ferrari; The Man, the Cars, the Races” never makes Ferrari interesting, which is its fatal flaw. There is a line Enzo has in the film that racing is a “deadly passion, a terrible joy,” but much of “Ferrari” fails to generate much passion. “Ferrari” does pick up speed during the racing scenes, which are shot at high speed, by cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, and give viewers the “you are there” thrill.

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Adam Driver stars as Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann's biopic of legendary racing-car mogul
1 year, 2 months ago

Adam Driver stars as Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann's biopic of legendary racing-car mogul

ABC  

Michael Mann has made a career from sleek, muscular portraits of masculinity in crisis. No wonder he's long been drawn to making a film about motor racing driver turned auto designer Enzo Ferrari — a man whose predilection for speed and success was tempered by a persistent sense of impending doom. Set in 1957, Ferrari finds its eponymous motor magnate …

Michael Mann still has another gear. At 80, he’s driving ‘Ferrari’
1 year, 3 months ago

Michael Mann still has another gear. At 80, he’s driving ‘Ferrari’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Michael Mann, who gave Crockett a white Ferrari on “Miami Vice,” pummeled cars with bullets in the shootout in “Heat” and set the thriller “Collateral” in a taxicab, has had an affection for automobiles since growing up in Chicago. It’s similar to him and the camera.” “Ferrari,” which opens in theaters Dec. 25, is Mann’s first film …

Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ with a terrific Adam Driver, is a somber epic of doom and vroom
1 year, 3 months ago

Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ with a terrific Adam Driver, is a somber epic of doom and vroom

LA Times  

Amid the roaring motors and screeching tires of “Ferrari,” Michael Mann’s operatic saga of fast cars, furious women and the powerful human citadel who toyed with them all, a moment occasionally rises from the smoke with the grace and clarity of an aria. Although drawn from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine,” …

Ferrari review: Buckle up, old bean, for a ride with echoes of The Italian Job, writes BRIAN VINER
1 year, 3 months ago

Ferrari review: Buckle up, old bean, for a ride with echoes of The Italian Job, writes BRIAN VINER

Daily Mail  

Ferrari Verdict: High-octane Rating: Aspiring novelists in creative writing classes are told never to begin a book with a character waking up and getting out of bed, on the basis that it's the most prosaic, least gripping start to a story. Ferrari is tremendously stylish and, for the most part, director Michael Mann does a fine job, especially with the …

Venice Film Festival | Adam Driver calls out Netflix, Amazon for not meeting actors’ strike demands
1 year, 6 months ago

Venice Film Festival | Adam Driver calls out Netflix, Amazon for not meeting actors’ strike demands

The Hindu  

Actor Adam Driver’s film Ferrari, directed by Michael Mann, is premiering at the Venice Film Festival, and the actor in a press conference today called out Netflix and Amazon for not meeting the demands of SAG-AFTRA, the striking actors’ labour union. But also, I’m very proud to be here to be a visual representation of a movie that’s not part …

Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz Starrer Ferrari May Compete at the Venice Film Festival
1 year, 8 months ago

Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz Starrer Ferrari May Compete at the Venice Film Festival

News 18  

Actors Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz’s upcoming international film Ferrari may compete at the Venice Film Festival. It began in 1932 as a great propaganda vehicle for Italy’s Mussolini, Cannes began several years later in 1939, but three days into the Festival, Hitler’s forces invaded Poland. He decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race — …

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