During the production of Michael Mann’s Ferrari in Modena, Patrick Dempsey called down to chef Jessica Rosval at Casa Maria Luigia around midnight with one question: “What are we having for dinner?” Pizza followed, served by the pool. That collision of major celebrity, fast cars and delicious food makes Emilia-Romagna the ideal post-Venice pitstop for auto-film lovers. Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini have home bases within roughly an hour’s drive of one another, and the films about their founders returned to the same cities and countryside. Mann’s Ferrari, which premiered at Venice in 2023, was filmed largely in Modena. Bobby Moresco…
