
There is film of Senna's adolescent fascination with speed and his first trip to Europe to take part in go-kart racing, and we're told by the Guardian's Richard Williams that he was brought up in affluent circumstances by devoted parents. Only in a very general sense is the film a biography. But there are newly recorded voiced contributions by journalists and professional collaborators that are included over contemporary footage from the 70s, 80s and 90s. There are no re-enactments or talking heads looking back over the career. The brilliantly edited film is based entirely on footage drawn from hundreds of hours of newsreel, material from Formula One's own archives, much of it previously unseen, and from the Senna family's home movies. The film's director, Asif Kapadia, had little previous knowledge of, or interest in, motor sports, but his two previous films, the features The Warrior and Far North, show his fascination with legend, tragedy and mystical experience which are essential elements of the Senna story. They have created a viscerally exciting and intellectually stimulating documentary. He died, aged 34, after a crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, and both the producer, James Gay-Rees, and the film's writer, Manish Pandey, are great admirers of their subject and Formula One. Life is too short."įor Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One champion, life was indeed too short. He was driving so fast that Kennedy remarked: "Take it easy, John. John Frankenheimer, who directed Grand Prix, the most expensive and ambitious of motor racing films, famously drove his guest Bobby Kennedy to the Ambassador Hotel the evening the senator was assassinated. Paul Newman did much of the same in Winning, his film about a racer's dream to win the Indianapolis 500.


Steve McQueen, for instance, was the co-producer and star of Le Mans and did much of his own driving. Album was released by Decca.M ovies about motor sports have invariably arisen out of the personal enthusiasms of the actors or directors that made them. Soundtrack consists of 21 tracks tracks with duration over about 50 minutes. Album was composed by Антонио Пинто and was released on October 10, 2011.
