“Adam! Adam! »Shrill screams, which were almost unbearable for a 50-year-old columnist, echoed across the red carpet in front of the Palazzo del Cinema on Thursday evening. On the occasion of the world premiere of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”, actor Adam Driver Gracefully stands up for the autograph game for around twenty minutes. Tinnitus threatens him.
Posted at 5:35 p.m.
If they’re so excited, perhaps it’s because Venetian selfie fans know they probably won’t see many Hollywood stars at the Lido this year. Because of the American actors’ strike, there won’t be many of them. You enjoy it while it’s happening.
“I’m very excited to be here to promote the film,” Driver said at a press conference earlier in the day, adding that he stands with the Screen Actors Guild in supporting the tentative deal that allows actors to to accompany independent films at festivals.
“I’m happy that independent films can be made and benefit from this exemption,” added Noah Baumbach’s Favorite Actor, honoring independent producers who he said respect actors more than the giants Netflix or Amazon.
Michael Mann also supported the demands of the actors’ union and Hollywood screenwriters. “We didn’t get a check from a big studio. That’s why we’re here, in solidarity with the two unions,” said the 80-year-old filmmaker and director of Heat, Ali and The Insider, who says he, like Adam Driver, gave up most of his salary so that his film could be made.
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Patrick Dempsey, Michael Mann and Adam Driver
Driver is a fitting surname for an actor who plays Enzo Ferrari on screen, the founder of the automotive team of the same name. Ferrari is interested in a crucial year in the life of the man nicknamed “Il Commendatore”.
In 1957, a year after their son’s death, Enzo and Laura Ferrari (Penélope Cruz) find themselves in turmoil. Their relationship is on the verge of implosion when Laura discovers that Enzo is leading a double life (and has a young illegitimate son). The company they co-founded is on the verge of bankruptcy. Enzo is betting on a victory in the legendary Mille Miglia race to relaunch his already legendary brand against his great rival Maserati. A particularly dangerous race in which the racing cars of the 1950s were veritable open-air graves.
Based on his own statement about the operatic and melodramatic side of this episode in the life of Enzo Ferrari, Michael Mann has staged an exciting and exciting story, especially in the sequences filmed from the racing cars, which were recreated at an identical height to the race track . Gossip: One of the old Maseratis on screen belongs to Nick Mason, Pink Floyd’s drummer, said Michael Mann.
Shot in English in Modena, hometown of Ferrari (and Maserati), the film has the peculiarity of featuring actors with “Italian” accents, as Adam Driver did when he played fashion designer Maurizio Gucci in Ridley’s House of Gucci Scott. His accent is less pronounced this time, but still just as unlikely. And not at all similar to Penélope Cruz.
These pitfalls, as well as the sometimes flat dialogue, don’t stop Michael Mann from offering another devilishly effective film in which the action starts right away (sorry). Music no longer plays as big a role as it did in his first films (Thief and its memorable Tangerine Dream soundtrack), but it accompanies this story wonderfully with its often cynical humor. Ferrari, a film about transference – in the truest sense of the word – and grief, must be in cinemas in Quebec this Christmas.