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.
28 October 1981, Auckland, New Zealand
2 June 1971, Auckland, New Zealand
12 December 1946, São Paulo, Brazil
28 February 1940, Montona, Istria, Italy [now Motovun, Istria, Croatia]
11 June 1939, Milton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK
May 18, 2017
McLaren is not exactly Senna and certainly not Rush.
May 25, 2017
An earnest but one-note portrait of a racing legend that never quite gets up to speed.
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 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.
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 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.
