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New Film Festival is set to close with the North American premiere of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”

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The epic masterpiece made from $90 million by STXfilms; Moto Productions; Forward Pass; Le Grisbi; Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment and distributed by Neon and STX entertainment “Ferarri”  is one impeccable piece that deserves all the attention it’s getting.

The New York Film Festival is set to close with the North American premiere of “Ferrari” the drama history masterpiece directed by Michael Mann announced on Thursday.

The screening of the film starring Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz will take place on Oct. 13 at Alice Tully Hall.

The movie is about the race car manufacturer and entrepreneur as he deals with professional and personal struggles in 1957. His marriage to wife Laura (Cruz) is struggling amid his philandering and the tragic recent death of their young son. Meanwhile, Driver’s Ferrari faces pressure to increase production as he prepares for the dangerous Mille Miglia race.

The cast  includes Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Patrick Dempsey and Jack O’Connell, with the film shot on location in Ferrari’s hometown of Modena. The film is scheduled to be released on Christmas Day. It was written by Troy Kennedy Martin, who adapted Brock Yates’ book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine. Mann produces alongside P.J. van Sandwijk, John Lesher, Marie Savare, John Friedberg, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher and Gareth West.

“Dovetailing these narrative strands, Mann effortlessly shifts gears between elegiac and spectacular, climaxing in an exhilarating and terrifying race across the Northern Italian landscape — a visual and aural wonder of revving machinery against bucolic splendor — that ranks with the greatest set pieces of the director’s career,” the NY Film Festival says of the project.

Ferrari is an American biographical drama directed by Michael Mann and written by Troy Kennedy Martin about  Enzo Ferrari, the  Italian founder of the car manufacturer Ferrari. It is based on the 1991 biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine.

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