‘Ferrari’ Gets 7 1/2-Minute Standing Ovation At Venice Film Festival World Premiere
deadline.comMichael Mann’s Ferrari received a 7 1/2-minute standing ovation Thursday night after the lights went up on the film’s world premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival.
The pic, which is screening in Competition in Venice, was the primetime premiere screening tonight on the Lido, with the film’s stars Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey and Daniela Piperno joining Mann on the red carpet and inside the Palazzo del Cinema.
Mann stood as the ovation began from the crowd, urging Driver to rise as well.(WATCH) Ferrari director Michael Mann gets his star Adam Driver to bask in the film’s 7 minutes 30 seconds standing ovation at #Venezia80 pic.twitter.com/bnPw8Snlpl RELATED: Venice Film Festival 2023: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews The pic’s subject matter is near and dear to Italians’ hearts, telling a story beginning in the summer of 1957 with ex-racer Enzo Ferrari (Driver) is in crisis.
Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura (Penélope Cruz), built from nothing 10 years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son a year earlier, and Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley).
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