Neon debuted the official trailer for Ferrari, the biopic film on Enzo Ferrari, Italian founder of the car manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A., based on the biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by motorsport journalist Brock Yates.

Starring in the film are Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari along with Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gordon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, and Patrick Dempsey.

Release Date

Directed by Michael Mann, Ferrari world premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and opens in theaters on Christmas, December 25, 2023.

Synopsis

It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.

Reviews

In their review The Hollywood Reporter wrote, “Ferrari is as unapologetically masculine as anything Mann has made and also as visceral, never more so than when it’s revving its engines and roaring around the track or along open roads in exciting race scenes. But, for better or worse, the screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin, based on motorsports journalist Brock Yates’ biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Car, The Races, The Machine, gives equal time to the personal crises facing its subject in summer 1957.”

Time review noted, “Ferrari, making its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, zings along with a sleek, greyhound energy—it’s a supple, elegant film, the kind of picture you’d expect from a vigorous craftsman like Mann, who hasn’t made a movie since the 2015 cybercrime thriller Black Hat. (Its source material is Brock Yates’ 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine.) Mann isn’t the most emotionally expressive director around, and Ferrari never strays far from its manly-man preoccupations; when it comes to real human feelings, Mann isn’t great at digging beneath the surface. Still, this is a pretty good-looking surface, and once you make peace with the convention of having American or Spanish actors playing Italian characters by speaking accented English – let’s call it the House of Gucci syndrome—Ferrari is reasonably engaging. The racing scenes, in particular, are thrilling, though they’re mitigated by a sense of horror. At one point, a driver calls the sport “our deadly passion, our terrible joy,” and he’s not kidding.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for Ferrari.