“IT’S HARD NOT TO GET PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT AN ENGINE; [IT’S] A MOVING PIECE OF ART”
ADAM DRIVER
In the year 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, desegregation began at a Little Rock, Arkansas high school, and some 4,300 miles away a 15-year-old musician named Paul McCartney met John Lennon and his band The Quarrymen—soon to be renamed The Beatles.
That same year, a tragic accident while Alfonso de Portago was racing in the iconic Mille Miglia at the wheel of a 4.0-litre Ferrari 335 S also had a major impact on the life of Enzo Ferrari, making it the most important milestone in his career to date, as documented in “Ferrari,” a new film from “Heat” and “The Insider” director Michael Mann.
“In this one year, 1957, many of the dynamic conflicts that are
