Adam Driver, star of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”, will travel to Camerimage, the cinematography-oriented film festival, to receive the EnergaCamerimage Special Award for an Actor. He will also introduce the film, one of the entries in the Camerimage main competition and a prominent awards contender this season.
The festival takes place in Toruń. Poland, from 11 to 18 November.
Driver has been described as a versatile actor who brings quiet intensity and emotional understanding to the many characters he has inhabited throughout his career. His impressive filmography includes collaborations with many of the industry’s most prominent and respected filmmakers, including J.J. Abrams, Noah Baumbach, Leos Carax, Joel and Ethan Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Lena Dunham, Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, Rian Johnson, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh.
In the Michael Mann biopic, Driver stars as legendary racing driver and automotive entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari.
Driver is known for the unpredictability of his acting choices and the way he works in unison with filmmakers to deploy the visual language of film in the interest of immersive storytelling.
Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called Ferrari a “complexly dark, rapturously gripping” film in which the racing scenes are haunted by the specter of death.
It is based on the 1991 biography “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine” by motorsport journalist Brock Yates. Tracing the personal journey of one man, Ferrari delves into his personal and professional struggles during the eventful summer of 1957. Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell and Patrick Dempsey are among the actors who portray characters in this turbulent story.
