The Camerimage Festival director makes a statement about Adam Driver’s viral explosive reaction during the audience question-and-answer session for “Ferrari.”

Adam Driver’s low-key visit to Poland’s EnergaCamerimage film festival became a viral internet meme over the weekend after the actor appeared during a question-and-answer session following a screening of ” Ferrari.

Marek Zydowicz, director and founder of the festival, has now issued a statement in response to the viral clip, which has caused a lot of discussion here in Torun.

“As with any film festival, with open discussions with invited artists, both meaningful and completely trivial questions and comments. In my opinion, the question posed during the question and answer session with Adam Driver belonged to the second category,” Zydowicz’s statement reads. “It was an assessment without deeper justification that goes against the spirit of our festival and the work we want to do.”

Zydowicz continued that Camerimage’s goal is to “celebrate, honor and acknowledge the art of the moving image and the great artists and collaborators of film.”

“We look forward to audiences seeing Michael Mann’s films Ferrariand the very authentic, outstanding work he and his film crew, including Adam Driver, did,” the statement concluded. Read the full statement below.

During the question and answer, the audience member asked Driver about accident scenes Ferrariwhich they describe as “pretty hard” and “cheesy.”

In response, the manager said, “Fuck it, I don’t know. Next question.”

The manager’s response elicited laughter and giggles from the rest of the theater audience. A clip of the interaction was widely shared on social media platforms.

The actor, who plays Enzo Ferrari in the biopic directed by Michael Mann, was in Torun to accept the festival’s honorary actor award Ferrari The screens in the main competition focused on the festival’s filmmaking. The picture begins in the summer of 1957, when Enzo, now a former racing driver, is in crisis. The factory that he and his wife Laura (Penélope Cruz) built from scratch ten years earlier is threatened with bankruptcy. Her unstable marriage is rocked by the loss of her son a year earlier, and Ferrari finds it difficult to acknowledge his son with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley). Meanwhile, its drivers’ passion to win pushes them to their limits as they tackle the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.

Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Gordon, Gabriel Leone and Jack O’Connell also star in the film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin.

Other photos featured on Camerimage during the competition include that of Yorgos Lanthimos poor things, That of Ridley Scott NapoleonMartin Scorsese Flower Moon Killerand Bradley Coopers master. The festival lasts until November 18.

by Marek Zydowicz Frame:

As the founder and director of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival, it was a great honor for me to have Adam Driver as a guest at the festival. We prepared a very demanding festival program for him, a program that Adam accepted with great openness and commitment. Despite the very tight program of his visit to Toruń in connection with his honorary award for the Golden Frog and the promotion of the film Ferrari in the main competition of our festival, he participated in meetings and discussions about the EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival When he mastered has the art of cinematography, he met with both admirers of his talent and film lovers and asked to open the conversation after the screening to the audience to have a direct dialogue with the people who came to see the film. He also visited the museum where I was preparing an exhibition of Jan Matejko’s excellent painting entitled “Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God”, which was shown in the National Gallery in London last year.

As with any film festival, there are open discussions with invited artists, both meaningful and completely trivial questions and comments. In my opinion, the question asked during the Q&A session with Adam Driver fell into the second category. It was an assessment without deeper justification that goes against the spirit of our festival and the work we want to do.

Having devoted the last thirty years of my life to the careful analysis of film images, our aim is to celebrate, honor and acknowledge the art of the moving image and the great artists and contributors to film. We look forward to showing audiences Michael Mann’s Ferrari and the very authentic, outstanding work he and his filmmaking team, including Adam Driver, have done.