Recreating the Targa Florio’s glory days

‘Documentary drama’ about the Sicilian road race is part re-enactment, part history lesson

THE NEW FILM about the Targa Florio, A Sicilian Dream, is described by its producers as a ‘documentary drama film’. If you’re not sure what that means – and we weren’t initially – then it is probably best thought of as being halfway between the true documentary treatment of Senna and the dramatised recreation of Hunt vs Senna in Rush. The film combines re-enactments of important scenes in the history of the famous road race with interviews with racers, historians and descendants of founder Vincenzo Florio, all bound together by a road trip around Sicily following the Targa Florio route by racer Alain de Cadenet and architect and enthusiast Francesco da Mosto. As such, it tends to jump around a little, which rather detracts from the main appeal of the film –…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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