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McLaren
The story of Bruce McLaren, the New Zealander who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team. A man who showed the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win.
2 June 1971, Auckland, New Zealand
11 June 1939, Milton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK
28 February 1940, Montona, Istria, Italy [now Motovun, Istria, Croatia]
12 December 1946, São Paulo, Brazil
28 October 1981, Auckland, New Zealand
May 18, 2017
McLaren is not exactly Senna and certainly not Rush.May 24, 2017
Taking a leaf out of Asif Kapadia's award winning documentary Senna (2010), Donaldson offers a comprehensive account of the highs and lows in the man's short, yet fruitful career.June 02, 2017
McLaren stands as more a celebration than sombre eulogy ... and should hold differing types of appeal to various generations.May 21, 2017
The talking heads are framed by captions that at times make the film look like a classy PowerPoint presentation, but its mix of lovely, fuzzy archive footage and pretty reconstructions makes it feel like a kind of docufiction.May 18, 2017
A paper-thin portrait of the racing car driver and designer Bruce McLaren, it is constructed with all the verve and passionate inquiry of a press release.May 25, 2017
An earnest but one-note portrait of a racing legend that never quite gets up to speed.May 26, 2017
Donaldson's film captures this lost era of motor racing through a rich selection of archive and home movie footage, though some newly reconstructed scenes and animations would have been better avoided.