Ferrari

Michael Mann has been working on a movie about Italian car magnate Enzo Ferrari for more than 20 years and his passion project has finally come to fruition.

The film, starring Adam Driver as Ferrari, is set in Modena, Italy in 1957, 10 years after Ferrari, a former racing driver, founded his eponymous motor company.

Maserati has just beaten his speed record and Ferrari (the company) is on the brink of financial collapse. To reclaim Ferrari’s title and drive car sales, he enters five of his drivers into the Mille Miglia, an open-road endurance race.

Mann focuses his movie on a short period in Ferrari’s life instead of covering many years and this works well because 1957 was an important year and one of the most challenging times for him.

In addition to his financial problems, Ferrari and his wife Laura (Penelope Cruz) are grieving the loss of their only child, Alfredo ‘Dino’, and Ferrari has been secretly keeping a mistress...