[FILM REVIEW] FERRARI Review (2024)

January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 Dave Alessandro Cremona, Alessio Cioni, Alex First, Alfredo Benedettini, Alice Zanini, Andrea Dolente, Andrea Fiorillo, Ben Collins, Biagio Caruso, Brett Smrz, Central Coast Radio, China, Daniele Carbone, Daniella Piperno, David Griffiths, Derek Hill, Domenico Fortunato, Edorardo Beraldi, Erik Haugen, Ferrari, Franca Abategiovanni, Gabriel Leone, Gabriel Noto, Gianfillippo Grasso, Giuseppe Attansio, Giuseppe Bonifati, Giuseppe Festinese, Italy, Jacopo Bruno, Javier Cornello Merida, Jonathan Burteaux, Leonardo Caimi, Lino Musella, Luciano Miele, Marino Franchitti, Massimo Scola, Michael Mann, Michele Savoia, Patrick Dempsey, Penelope Cruz, Robert Steiner, Samuel Hubinette, Sarah Gadon, Shailene Woodley, The Popcorn Conspiracy Radio Show, Tommaso Basilli, Tommaso Paolucci, Troy Kennedy Martin, UK, USA, Valentina Belle, Wyatt Carnel

Summary: Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari’s auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.

Year: 2024

Cinema Release Dates: 4th January 2024 (Australia), TBA (Thailand), 26th December 2023 (UK), 25th December 2023 (USA)

VOD Release Dates: TBA (Australia), TBA (Thailand), TBA (UK), TBA (USA)

Country: UK, USA, Italy, China

Director: Michael Mann

Screenwriter: Troy Kennedy Martin

Cast: Franca Abategiovanni (Alda), Giuseppe Attansio (Romolo Tavoni), Tommaso Basili (Gianni Agnelli), Valentina Belle (Cecilia Manzini), Alfredo Benedettini (Alfredo Ferrari), Edoardo Beraldi (Dino Ferrari (Three Years Old)), Giuseppe Bonifati (Giacomo Cuoghi), Jacopo Bruno (Omer Orsi), Jonathan Burteaux (King Hussein), Leonardo Caimi (Brusoni The Tenor), Daniele Carbone (Denis ‘Jenks’ Jenkinson), Wyatt Carnel (Graf Berghe Von Trips), Biagio Caruso (Fusaro), Alessio Cioni (Di Massimo), Ben Collins (Stirling Moss), Alessandro Cremona (Porter), Penelope Cruz (Laura Ferrari), Patrick Dempsey (Piero Taruffi), Andrea Dolente (Gino Rancati), Adam Driver (Enzo Ferrari), Giuseppe Festinese (Piero Lardi), Andrea Fiorillo (Carlo The Accountant), Domenico Fortunato (Adolfi Orso), Marino Franchitti (Eugenio Castellotti), Sarah Gadon (Linda Christian), Gianfilippo Grasso (Matteo), Erik Haugen (Edmund Nelson), Derek Hill (Jean Behra), Samuel Hubinette (Mike Hawthorn), Gabriel Leone (Alfonso De Portago), Javier Cornelio Merida (Louis Klemantaski), Luciano Miele (Peppino), Lino Musella (Sergio Scaglietti), Gabriel Noto (Dino Ferrari (Seven Years Old)), Jack O’Connell (Peter Collins), Tommaso Paolucci (Cosetti), Daniella Piperno (Adalgisa Ferrari), Michele Savoia (Carlo Chiti), Massimo Scola (Tommaso), Brett Smrz (Olivier Gendebien), Robert Steiner (Commentator – Millie Miglia), Shailene Woodley (Lina Lardi), Alice Zanini (Louise Collins)

Running Time: 130 minutes

Classification: MA15+ (Australia), TBC (Thailand), 15 (UK), R (USA)

OUR FERRARI REVIEWS

David Griffiths’s Ferrari Review

David’s rating Out Of 5

Alex First’s Ferrari Review

The power, the glory and the horrors associated with one of the world’s most prestigious marques is on show in Ferrari.

The primary focus is on its controlling founder, Enzo Ferrari.

Born in Modena, Italy on 20th February 1898, Enzo would go on to become a racing car driver, retiring at the age of 33.

He and his wife Laura started the Ferrari motor racing team in 1947.

Ferrari, the film, picks up his story 10 years later.

Known as a womaniser, Enzo and Laura have a volatile relationship.

She controls the books with an eagle eye and Ferrari is leaking money.

On the personal front, the pair is barely on speaking terms.

They continue to grieve the death of their son, Alfredo “Dino”, who was born in 1932 and died of muscular dystrophy in 1956.

Enzo has a long standing, secret mistress, Lina Lardi, whom he met during the war and with whom he had a son, Piero, in 1945.

Piero is a bright child, whom his mother would like to carry the Ferrari name, but the situation surrounding Enzo’s wife makes that far from a straightforward proposition.

On the racing front, Ferrari’s only way out of its financial quagmire is to win races, among them the 1957 Mille Miglia, where the real threat comes from Maserati.

And bear in mind, this is an era in which deaths among the motor racing fraternity are not uncommon.

Enzo himself still mourns the deaths of two compatriots 25 years earlier.

Still, Ferrari paints Enzo as a driven (pardon the pun) pragmatist, with a “win at all costs” mentality.

His life is a constant juggle to try to stay on top of the unravelling threads.

Ferrari is a powerful, at times horrific, portrait of the race to be the fastest … and to stay afloat.

Adam Driver impresses with a largely humourless, but dominant portrayal of Enzo, a man on a perpetual tightrope. Driver continues to walk tall throughout.

Penelope Cruz is a force of nature as his wife, a woman not to be taken lightly. Cruz is positively ferocious as Laura.

Shailene Woodley displays the patience of Job as his mistress, Lina, intent on looking out for their son.

Ferrari was written by Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job), based on the book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine by Brock Yates.

Michael Mann, who executive produced Ford v Ferrari in 2019 steps behind the camera, as director, on this one.

Let’s face it, Mann is used to bringing heat (he helmed the action, crime, drama of that name in 1995), and there is an intensity about Ferrari too.

Mann adroitly balances the Ferrari business, with the complexity of Enzo’s personal relationships. As a result, Ferrari, the movie, leaves an indelible imprint.

Alex’s rating Out Of 5

Average Subculture rating Out Of 5

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