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Feb 26, 2006

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

In honor of the Enzo incident, it seems fitting to throw up a link to the underground film classic, C'etait un Rendezvous. Important to know when watching: there were no film tricks employed. One morning in 1978, Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, race through Paris. For technical reasons, the film was limited to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed; Lelouch had no permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. He runs real red lights, skims past real pedestrians, and drives the wrong way up one-way streets. When the film was shown in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.

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Posted by: wslmwps | Sep 19, 2007 at 10:27 PM

Simon

Great film footage...nicely done. The audio was obviously dubbed and clearly not production audio from the shoot itself, but is what really makes this sequence cool. As with most all film or video it's the sound that makes it all work and creates the desired effect. Well done for it's time.

Posted by: Simon | May 31, 2006 at 07:07 PM

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