EXCLUSIVE: Amid speculation about its future, Paramount Global is proceeding with a new wave of staff reductions in February, sources tell Deadline. I hear the cuts will impact hundreds of employees across the entire company.
03.01.2024 - 09:13 / variety.com
Joe Leydon Film Critic You have to give the makers of “Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia” credit for their honesty in describing their “inspired by true events” drama.
Not only do they offer twice in the closing credits the standard disclaimers about invoking dramatic license and inventing some characters out of whole cloth. To make sure we fully understand how fast and loose they have played with reality, they cap things off thusly: “This film cannot be considered a faithful description of facts.” Trouble is, the film isn’t a grippingly exciting or even consistently compelling description, either.
Mostly, it’s a competent yet uninspired overview of events before and during the globetrotting series of races that comprised the 1983 World Rally Championship, with the primary focus remaining affixed throughout on Cesare Fiorio, the ferociously competitive manager for Italy’s Team Lancia. That narrative imbalance is not altogether surprising, considering that Firori is played by Riccardo Scamarcio (“John Wick: Chapter 2,” “A Haunting in Venice”), the Italian-born actor who also served as a producer and co-screenwriter for the film.
He not only gives himself all of the best lines; he also commands most of the screen time. It would be less than charitable, and not completely accurate, to describe “Race for Glory” as a vanity project.
But it must be noted that very little of interest happens when he is not on screen. Indeed, the most memorable scene not involving Scamarcio occurs when another character — Roland Gumpert (Daniel Brühl),manager of Team Audi — angrily reacts to what he sees as egregious rule-bending by Fiori: “Those noodle munchers tricked us!” A funny line, though arguably not as amusing as Fiori’s snarky dismissal
.EXCLUSIVE: Amid speculation about its future, Paramount Global is proceeding with a new wave of staff reductions in February, sources tell Deadline. I hear the cuts will impact hundreds of employees across the entire company.
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EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Ireland and Australia & New Zealand rights to Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick: Chapter 2) rally racing film Race For Glory: Audi vs. Lancia from HanWay Films.
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