Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Neon releases the film in theaters on Monday, December 25.
For Enzo Ferrari, racing was a deadly passion, a terrible joy.
For director Michael Mann, the automaker and his life’s obsession make for briskly entertaining melodrama in a moment-in-time portrait focused around Ferrari and the Mille Miglia race of 1957. Adam Driver, again playing an Italian historical figure after taking on Maurizio Gucci for another major American auteur in Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” stars as a grief-driven Enzo Ferrari, working to save his near-bankrupt company while trying to appease his business partner and wife, Laura. She’s played with jilted, internalized rage by Penélope Cruz in her best performance since winning an Oscar for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” In fact, you could argue that Laura, worn in as an old shoe and run dry by her husband’s dalliances and impulsive decision-making,...
For Enzo Ferrari, racing was a deadly passion, a terrible joy.
For director Michael Mann, the automaker and his life’s obsession make for briskly entertaining melodrama in a moment-in-time portrait focused around Ferrari and the Mille Miglia race of 1957. Adam Driver, again playing an Italian historical figure after taking on Maurizio Gucci for another major American auteur in Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” stars as a grief-driven Enzo Ferrari, working to save his near-bankrupt company while trying to appease his business partner and wife, Laura. She’s played with jilted, internalized rage by Penélope Cruz in her best performance since winning an Oscar for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” In fact, you could argue that Laura, worn in as an old shoe and run dry by her husband’s dalliances and impulsive decision-making,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
I know a good amount of people with various disabilities. Many of them use their disabilities as an excuse not to do certain things, or blame their lack of success their ailments. It's hard to break down the wall of feeling limited in their abilities, and becoming grounded.
Brett Smrz is an inspiration to anyone who might feel this way. You see, at 16-years-old, Smrz lost one of his legs in a trampoline accident, but that didn't stop him from becoming a professional stuntman!
He is one of two stunt doubles for Paul Rudd on Marvel Ant-Man and the Wasp and he is a stunt driver. In the photo below you can see him walking around on the set of the film in Ant-Man's new costume. You can read all about his background here.
This definitely will make people rethink the way we look at stunt doubles and the...
Brett Smrz is an inspiration to anyone who might feel this way. You see, at 16-years-old, Smrz lost one of his legs in a trampoline accident, but that didn't stop him from becoming a professional stuntman!
He is one of two stunt doubles for Paul Rudd on Marvel Ant-Man and the Wasp and he is a stunt driver. In the photo below you can see him walking around on the set of the film in Ant-Man's new costume. You can read all about his background here.
This definitely will make people rethink the way we look at stunt doubles and the...
- 9/26/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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