Because It’s Friday: C’était un Rendez-vous (1976)
A vintage, vehicular treat for a Friday afternoon. The 10 minute legendary short, C'était un Rendez-vous (directed by Claude Lelouch) shows a driver tear through the almost-deserted daybreak streets of 1976 Paris in a Ferrari 275 GTB. At once soothingly hypnotic and heart-racing, the seamless first-person long-take culminates with its driver arriving to meet with a beautiful blonde.
Upon release, the short-subject film was extremely controversial - people were outraged that the movie was shot illegally and without permits, endangering motorists and pedestrians alike. Legend is that Lelouch was arrested immediately following the first showing. There was wild speculation over who the driver was; rumors of an unnamed Formula 1 driver, a taxi driver, and Lelouch himself.
Today, the film is recognized as a cult staple, and ranks with other great racing sequences. It turns out that the vehicle was actually a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9, and the Ferrari was dubbed into the audio track during post-production. A special nod as well to our own Parisian street racing experience, which was released originally 9 years ago this month.
Link: http://www.spiritlevelfilm.com/films/motoring/rendezvous.html
The Ferrari 275 GTB.
"C'était un Rendezvous is the creation of the French filmmaker Claude Lelouch in 1976. Using a Mercedes 450SEL early one August morning, Lelouch attached a camera to the bumper of the car and sped through the streets of Paris. (The sounds of a Ferrari 275 GTB were added in post-production.) He gave the driver a set route from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur, which is straight through the heart of Paris. The driver is still unknown to this day, because Lelouch was never able to obtain a permit to close the streets. The driver, who Lelouch told officials was an F1 racer, went over the speed limit and blew off many red lights. When this film was first shown, Lelouch was arrested, and because of this, the footage has spent many years underground before it began to resurface on DVD a few years ago. Lelouch used a new technology of the time, a gyro stabilized camera mount, in order to mount the camera on the car. The problem with this is that the technology of the time only allowed for a ten minute film with this mount. Lelouch told his driver to rush because of this time limit, and the video itself is only about nine minutes. In our velocity graph, we used all footage of the car when it was in motion."
French Touch !
Oh yeah? Where are you seeing that info?
Here’s some articles and clips we’ve seen – check it out
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/most-radical-car-movie-of-all-time.html
Lelouch confessed to being the driver: "Of course. People were exhilarated by the action but morally outraged by the method. I can't say I blame them. It was my film, and I was fully prepared to take the risks."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXFvtVlYcM
THE MAKING OF (make sure to turn on closed captioning)
at 3:48
@Bosack01 Nice
Haha those pigeons were like "Oh Sh%*! :O"
152 Flying Rats left in Paris.
where do u R* find all this vids?
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