Today, Thursday, February 8, it opens in theaters across the country. Ferrarithe latest feature film Michael Mann which takes a key moment in the life of the Italian who became famous for creating red cars that everyone fell in love with. It’s just beginning 10 years after founding his factory, when considering how to continue with the business. He runs it with his wife, an ace with numbers. But this crossroads also finds him trying to keep his wife from finding out that he has a regular lover, with whom he became a father several years ago.
In this game of cat and mouse we see Don Enzo, who is already graying, trying to inspire courage in his pilots (They didn’t even wear seat belts in 1957.!!) at the same time that he will use various stratagems to find a capitalist partner in the industry. In addition to fighting forcefully with his wife before the church. This is roughly what happens in the plot of the film written by Troy Kennedy Martin, which has a great period reconstruction and is supported by the equally great performances of Adam Driver like a measured Enzo Ferrari, of Penelope Cruz as his effervescent and intelligent wife Laura already Shailiene Woodley like the lover (a character who is the only one who does not age). The first two are very good and they sparkle in every scene they share. They are the best of the feature film.
Here is the clarification that there are very raw scenes that show EVERYTHING that happened with a couple of car accidents that are very impressive. TO That also comes with the comment that they did not use seat belts, but neither were spectators protected in competitions such as the Thousand Miles that passed through the small Italian towns.
There are other familiar faces, such as Patrick Dempsey who plays one of the most experienced runners of the team. But for this film, which lasts two hours and 10 minutes, the main problem it has is that it is heavy, long, stretched. Maybe car racing fans will like to see how, scene after scene, racing was done in that era, but the average viewer is going to find it tiresome. In the same way that he repeats situations, when the best, as I already said, are those that Don Enzo shares with Doña Laura. With this reservation, it will be up to each person to decide whether to go to the movies or not. Without a doubt, it is a overproduction. And maybe that’s why It’s so annoying to hear the actors speak in English with an Italian accent. Why don’t they speak Italian directly?