Passes the Bechdel test
Ferrari
2023. Directed by Michael Mann, written by Troy Kennedy Martin and Brock Yates.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 207. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another. He decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race - 1,000 miles across Italy, the iconic Mille Migl!
- Released
- 25 Dec 2023
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, History
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 73 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 7 wins & 42 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Ferrari 335 lines, man
- Laura 95 lines, woman
- Lina 48 lines, woman
- De Portago 44 lines, man
- Cuoghi 23 lines, man
- Piero 18 lines, man
- Cecillia 17 lines
- Adalgisa 16 lines, woman
- Collins 16 lines, man
- Scaglietti 15 lines, man
Full cast, 65 people
- Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari
- Penélope Cruz as Laura Ferrari
- Shailene Woodley as Lina Lardi
- Gabriel Leone as Alfonso de Portago
- Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian
- Jack O'Connell as Peter Collins
- Patrick Dempsey as Piero Taruffi
- Giuseppe Festinese as Piero Lardi
- Michele Savoia as Carlo Chiti
- Valentina Bellè as Cecilia Manzini
- Tommaso Basili as Gianni Agnelli
- Andrea Dolente as Gino Rancati
- Lino Musella as Sergio Scaglietti
- Brett Smrz as Olivier Gendebien
- Massi Furlan as Italian journalist (voice)
- Peter Arpesella as TV Sportscaster (voice)
- Giuseppe Russo as Carabiniere / TV Sportcaster (voice)
- Luca Della Valle as Italian Journalist (voice)
- Andrea Bruschi as Bishop
- Giuseppe Bonifati as Giacomo Cuoghi
- Agnese Brighittini as Mother
- Samuel Hübinette as Mike Hawthorn
- Leonardo Caimi as Brusoni The Tenor
- Gianfilippo Grasso as Matteo
- Daniela Piperno as Adalgisa Ferrari
- Alessandro Cremona as Porter
- Derek Hill as Jean Behra
- Jacopo Bruno as Omer Orsi
- Domenico Fortunato as Adolfo Orsi
- Damiano Neviani as Stagehand
- Franca Abategiovanni as Alda
- Marino Franchitti as Eugenio Castellotti
- Luciano Miele as Peppino
- Alessandra D'Elia as Barber
- Giuseppe Attanasio as Romolo Tavoni
- Marco Maccieri as Onlooker at Church
- Andrea Fiorillo as Carlo the Accountant
- Marc Gené as Taxi Driver in Yellow Car
- Jonathan Burteaux as King Hussain
- Massimo Scola as Tommaso
- Javier Cornelio Merida as Louis Klemantaski
- Wyatt Carnel as Graf Berghe Von Trips
- Tommaso Paolucci as Cosetti
- Alessio Cioni as Di Massimo
- Biagio Caruso as Fusaro
- Maurizio Cardillo as Journalist
- Alice Zanini as Louise Collins
- Lulu Najafi as Lina's Friend at the Opera
- Uladzislava Keizereva as Soprano
- Edoardo Beraldi as Dino Ferrari (Three Years Old)
- Gabriel Noto as Dino Ferrari (Seven Years Old)
- Alfredo Benedettini as Alfredo Ferrari
- Carlo Fei as Hotel Owner Marzotto
- Robert Steiner as Commentator (Millie Miglia)
- Erik Haugen as Edmund Nelson
- Ben Collins as Stirling Moss
- Daniele Carbone as Denis "Jenks" Jenkinson
- Modesto Menabue as Chief Mechanic
- Massimo Bottura as Desk Clerk
- Pietro Corradini as Mechanic
- Andrea Volpetti as TV Commentator
- Francesco Gorga as Father at Guidizzolo
- Pietro Piccinini as Three-Year-Old Son
- Edoardo Golemi as Eight-Year-Old Son
- Filippo Marchi as Photographer
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 207
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 to 10 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 to 15 | 0 | 9 |
| 16 to 20 | 6 | 13 |
| 21 to 25 | 12 | 6 |
| 26 to 30 | 3 | 12 |
| 31 to 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 to 40 | 0 | 8 |
| 41 to 45 | 16 | 26 |
| 46 to 50 | 0 | 18 |
| 51 to 55 | 0 | 29 |
| 56 to 60 | 0 | 40 |
| 61 to 65 | 27 | 47 |
| 66 to 70 | 14 | 41 |
| 71 to 75 | 4 | 6 |
| 76 to 80 | 1 | 2 |
| 81 to 85 | 18 | 30 |
| 86 to 90 | 3 | 9 |
| 91 to 95 | 1 | 0 |
| 96 to 100 | 0 | 5 |
| 101 to 105 | 0 | 2 |
| 106 to 110 | 0 | 10 |
| 111 to 115 | 0 | 11 |
| 116 to 120 | 10 | 0 |
| 121 to 125 | 1 | 1 |
| 126 to 130 | 19 | 31 |
| 131 to 135 | 3 | 11 |
| 136 to 140 | 0 | 13 |
| 141 to 145 | 0 | 29 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 1 |
| 151 to 155 | 0 | 1 |
| 156 to 160 | 0 | 3 |
| 161 to 165 | 0 | 7 |
| 166 to 170 | 3 | 31 |
| 171 to 175 | 1 | 51 |
| 176 to 180 | 6 | 2 |
| 181 to 185 | 0 | 2 |
| 186 to 190 | 1 | 0 |
| 191 to 195 | 4 | 7 |
| 196 to 200 | 3 | 12 |
| 201 to 205 | 0 | 9 |
| 206 to 207 | 17 | 28 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scene
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
ADALGISA: Good morning. LAURA: No one was hurt, okay? So don't make a fuss. ADALGISA: What? What have I said?
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 24 are women's.
175 lines from women, 567 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
7 women and 34 men in the cast. 5 women and 26 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 114 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 22% of the words (1,566), men 78% (5,687). Women have 24% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
2
Two men
43
Exhibit F: behind the camera
5 of the 23 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Michael Mann (man)
- Written by
- Troy Kennedy Martin (man), Michael Mann (man)
- Produced by
- P.J. van Sandwijk (man), Andrea Iervolino (man), Thomas Hayslip (man), Monika Bacardi (woman), Gareth West (gender not listed), John Friedberg (man) and 5 more
- Shot by
- Erik Messerschmidt (man)
- Edited by
- Pietro Scalia (man)
- Music by
- Daniel Pemberton (man)
- Production design by
- Maria Djurkovic (woman)
- Costumes by
- Massimo Cantini Parrini (man)
- Cast by
- Armando Pizzuti (man), Francine Maisler (woman), Massimo Appolloni (man), Annamaria Sambucco (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
9 women, 22 men, 25 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 14 men, 1 not listed
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Art
5 women, 2 men, 8 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 3 men, 8 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 5 men, 5 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 4 men, 6 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 37 on average. Men: 39 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Valentina Bellè 31, Shailene Woodley 32, Sarah Gadon 36, Penélope Cruz 49
Men
Gabriel Leone 30, Jack O'Connell 33, Michele Savoia 34, Adam Driver 40, Patrick Dempsey 57
Exhibit H: the money
It made 41% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $95 million
- Box office
- $39.2 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 207 scenes and 810 lines of dialogue. How the test works
