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Ferrari Review: Michael Mann’s Latest Film Is Stuck in Second Gear
The movie, starring Adam Driver as the Italian auto giant, offers 30 minutes of stunning, heart-pounding suspense. And 100 minutes of something else.
Driver plays the ambitious businessman Enzo Ferrari.
Photographer: Lorenzo SistiFerrari starts with some ancient history: archival footage of Enzo Ferrari racing cars as a young man in the 1920s, just a few decades into the automobile age, long before he founded his eponymous automobile company. Watching him zoom around the track in grainy black and white is thrilling. But, wait a minute—how are we cutting into these closeups? Cameras were much too large in 1924 to strap to the side of a race car. And hold on—that’s not Enzo. It’s that most Italian of non-Italian movie stars, Adam Driver.