{"id":152436,"date":"2024-01-04T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/?p=152436"},"modified":"2024-01-02T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T00:24:57","slug":"ferrari-4-january-2024-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/ferrari-4-january-2024-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari – movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The power, the glory and the horrors associated with one of the world\u2019s most prestigious marques is on show in Ferrari. The primary focus is on its controlling founder, Enzo Ferrari. Born in Modena, Italy in 1898, Enzo would go on to become a racing car driver, before retiring at the age of 33. He and his wife Laura started the Ferrari motor racing team in 1947. Ferrari, the film, picks up his story 10 years later.<\/p>\n

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Enzo (Adam Driver) and Laura (Penelope Cruz) have a volatile relationship. He\u2019s known as a womaniser. She controls the books with an eagle eye and Ferrari is leaking money. On the personal front, the pair are barely on speaking terms. They continue to grieve the death of their son, \u201cDino\u201d, who had died of muscular dystrophy the year before. Enzo has a longstanding secret mistress, Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley). He met during the war and had a son, Piero, in 1945 with her. Piero is a bright child, whom his mother would like to carry the Ferrari name, but the situation surrounding Enzo\u2019s wife makes that far from a straightforward proposition.<\/p>\n

On the racing front, Ferrari\u2019s only way out of its financial quagmire is to win races. Among them is the 1957 Mille Miglia, where the real threat comes from Maserati. And bear in mind, this is an era when deaths in the sport are not uncommon. Enzo himself still mourns the deaths of two comrades 25 years earlier. Ferrari paints Enzo as a driven (pardon the pun) pragmatist, with a \u201cwin at all costs\u201d mentality. His life is a constant juggle to try to stay on top of the unravelling threads.<\/p>\n

Ferrari is a powerful, at times horrific, portrait of the race to be the fastest \u2026 and to stay afloat. Adam Driver impresses with a largely humourless, but dominant portrayal of Enzo, a man on a perpetual tightrope. Driver continues to walk tall throughout. Penelope Cruz is positively ferocious as Laura, a woman not to be taken lightly. Shailene Woodley displays the patience of Job as his mistress, Lina.<\/p>\n