Pablo Larrena’s El Conde / Michael Mann’s Ferrari

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• El Conde Pablo Larrain

FERRARI

USA, 2023, Direction Michael Mann translators Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabrielle Leone, Jack O’Connell, Patrick Dempsey, Duration 130 minutes Distribution Black Bear International Leone Film Group Spa

It was from 2015 when he made an underrated action movie. Black hatWhat Michael Mann he did not return behind the camera. ferraritaken from biography Enzo Ferrari – Man and Machine (Penguin Books Ltd, 2019) by: Brock Yatesis a new challenge for the director of such masterpieces as Last of the Mohicans (1992) Heat (1995) insider (1999) Pledge (presented out of competition in Venice 2006) e Enemy of the state (2009).

To understand how long Michael Mann thought about this project, it is enough to note that he wrote the first versions of the script along with the later ones. Troy Kennedy-Martin (Italian shot; Danko) passed away in 2009 before repeatedly returning to being an editor Peter Scalia (Oscar Award for John F. Kennedy – Case still open AND Black Hawk Down – Black Hawk down.) were advised not to be biopic, “But in reality, the film focuses on a specific moment in Enzo Ferrari’s life in 1957, when family and work events are intertwined. It’s a complex film, a Shakespearean drama.”

. The story actually takes place in the summer of 1957, a year of professional and personal crisis for former racing driver Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver): bankruptcy brought down the company founded by him and his wife Laura Dominica Garello (Penelope Cruz) ten years earlier. The marriage was severely tested by the death of their son Dino, who died prematurely in 1956 at the age of just 24 due to Duchenne dystrophy, and by Ferrari’s relationship with Laura Lardi (Shailene Woodley), from whom he had a son, Pierrot. In such a delicate context, Ferrari is convinced that only one thing can heal the last painful defeats of his life: to put everything he has on a car race that will pass through all of Italy and which will later become famous as the Mille Miglia. hoping to save his team.

Mann originally thought of Christian Bale like Ferrari, later replaced Hugh Jackmanbefore Adam Driver finally got the role in January 2022, thus returning to interpreting after Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci Ridley Scott, one of the most famous heroes of Italian history. Along with Driver, in addition to the two women in the life of Ferrari, embodied Penelope Cruz AND Shailene Woodleywe found Patrick Dempsey (also in life a car enthusiast, together with Alessandro Del Piero the founder of the team Dempsey Del Piero Proton and twice party 24 Hours of Le Mans), who plays pilot Piero Taruffi, and Jack O’Connell plays the role of Peter Collins.

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EL CONDE

Chile, 2023, Direction Pablo Larrain, translators Jaime Wadell, Gloria Münchmeier, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger, Stella Gone, Antonia Zegers, Marcial Tagle, Amparo Noguera, Diego Muñoz, Catalina Guerra, Duration 110 feet

To enrich an already very interesting competition, the 80th Venice International Film Festival brings back to the Lido Pablo Larraín, certainly one of the directors who have become the most beloved by moviegoers in recent years, and continues the tradition that made him present at the Biennale. Cinema and previous Emma

(in 2019) and Spencer (in 2021). WITH El CondeThe Chilean director returns to the most surreal paths of his cinema, blending the biographies of his latest trials with his habit of recounting Chile and its wounds, always critical of his country’s recent history and the regime it has suffered.

It’s a coup d’etat dictator Augusto Pinochet, who in the film comes back to life as a vampire in a kind of parallel universe in which he lives, hiding in a ruined palace at the icy southern tip of the continent. Now, exhausted, at the advanced age of two hundred and fifty, Pinochet is fed up with the eternal life and shame he thinks he deserves. After brutality and murder, he just wants to die… until an unexpected romance prompts him to live a new life full of counter-revolutionary passions.

By all appearances, the tone will be black comedy, with a streak of horror and some stylistic references to Alexander Sokurov’s Trilogy of Power and 1920s German Expressionism: all promising prerequisites for a film that anyone who couldn’t make Lido can make. recover immediately after the end of the Exhibition, starting from September 15th, on Netflix. “A place where directors I admire have made truly valuable films.Larraine defined the streaming platform, in a way explaining the choices he made for this new film of his (the next would be a “long-awaited dream” biopic about Callas, Marystarring Angelina Jolie, which will begin filming in Budapest in October).

An “adventure” in black and white, again, to use the words of an interested person, a return to the roots in which the Chilean director wanted to be by his side – in addition to co-writer Guillermo Calderon (already with him in Ema, Neruda, Club) – many actors have already been directed by Jamie Wadell in the past (No), both a revived Pinochet and Alfredo Castro (Tony Manero) Paule Luchsinger (Emma), Diego Munoz, Antonia Zegers and Amparo Noguera. All witnesses to a career in which Pinochet often found himself at the center – directly or indirectly – of the events told in various films. Reaffirming the clear will of the Chilean director not to forget the horrors that began with the coup of September 11, 1973, which resulted in the death of President Salvador Allende.

“The idea of ​​the film is an old idea. Larrain recently explained, which is based on the most dangerous of the concepts, that a figure like Pinochet can be eternal… and that evil can survive.“. “I don’t know if this could be an allegory because it’s very straight forward. I think it would be right to say something like this at a time when history seems to be repeating itself, to remind us how dangerous we are.“, he concluded.

Mattia Pasquini