Saturday 19 October 2013

C'était Un Rendezvous (1976 Claude Lelouch)

The best nine minute film ever made and the fastest tour of Paris, as Claude Lelouch charges across the city at dawn in one single take filmed from a fixed camera mounted on the car's bonnet. We had to watch it twice.

Champs Elysées: Fouquet's distinctive red awning on the right.
According to Lelouch himself the car was not a Ferrari 275GTB but rather a Mercedes with the sports car's engine dubbed over it to make the journey appear faster (it is estimated the average speed is only around 50 mph). Nevertheless we lost count of how many red lights he dangerously speeds through (I think 13). The route is helpfully mapped here.

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