Michael Mann puts Modena in the headlights with his racing drama

‘There’s poetry in the drinking water’: Michael Mann puts Modena in the headlights with racing drama ‘Ferrari’ Emilia-Romagna is the beating heart of Italian motorsport. Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz were all too happy to make Modena home.

Hollywood loves a heroic capitalist, writes Noah Berlatsky, but what makes ‘Ferrari’ different is how much blunter the film is about the worst-case results of capitalist exploitation. The film is blundering about the effects of capitalism, he says.

“Ferrari” doesn’t click on all cylinders, featuring a miscast Adam Driver as the automotive mogul. Michael Mann-directed movie has some arresting moments that add up to less than the sum of its parts. “Ford v. Ferrari’s” looks at the other side of that combustible equation appeared to have potential.