The Official "Rendezvous" (C'était un rendez-vous) Thread

As far as I could trace the route using the DVD he doesn't make a turn which could lead into Rue de Cardinal Guibert.
He drives Rue Norvins to the end, makes a right turn 'round the Yellow car with an open door and a person with the Red pullover and blue jeans into Rue Saint-Eleutheré, then left into Parvis du Sacre Coeur.

Attachment of the final part map .gif is zipped since 2304x1728 screenshots don't fit on everybody's computer.

The only place where he would drive the wrong way driving it today is when he exits the Louvre.

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It is allowed to park there since Rue Lepic is a one-way street. I think he planned to drive there (a mapped route of the planned way is possible), and it looks like there is enough space anyway, but we cannot see enogh still. Will Claude ever answer that question? Maybe it was a garbage truck further in the street, we can see lots of them on the DVD.

Setsuna/Jou

 

I went through the DVD frame by frame too.
There are quite some reflections on glass of shops and bus stops.
Not many though, the most promising are attached here.
Can anyone say what car it can of cannot be from the lights?

From image03 to image07 you can guess the outline of a car, the other reflections don't offer much from the car, only from the lights.

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It would be great if this thread could be the definitive answer to the Rendezvous question.

To my ear, the engine in the soundtrack is definitely a Columbo V-12.

Here's what Tony Dron reported in the December 2003 issue of Classic Cars:

Sumner Brown--an MIT techno-wizard--had analyzed the film in depth. Brown traced the route using a 10,000:1 Michelin street map and split it into 15 sections. The fastest bit is near the start: 1360 meters of the Avenue Foch are covered in 39.9sec, an average speed of 76.2 mph. And so it continues, street by street and meter by meter, much of it around 30 mph. The complete route being 10,280 meters, the average speed is just 46.9 mph.

 

Back when I lived in France for a while--the word was that the car was a MATRA V-12

If you listen closely It almost sounds like a flat12 917 motor---It does not sound at all like a Ferrari motor to me.
I think it was definately a MATRA.

 

The Rendezvous is a great movie, you can't stop watching it, and that's what movies are all about.
With that said thinking about the film I bet that Claude Lelouch drove the car himself. A G.P. driver would have had cleaner apexes and used all the road on the way out of various corners, even if only to show off. I suspect the reason for claiming that a G.P. driver was behind the wheel was to shift any potential blame to a third party - and to make it more interesting. I’d also wager that there was a passenger who would look out for cross traffic as they came to each red light.
The one thing that hit me as being really odd took place on the one way street he bombed down near the end. He passes a parked car - a car that is pointing in his direction, thus everyone goes down that one way the wrong way! I guess that’s the only safe way to drive in Paris!

 

Very simple, he doesn't drive the wrong way through the one-way. Throughout the whole drive he doesn't do that, all traffic signs you can see can only exist if you drive the right way.

Setsuna/Jou

 

Is there any reason to believe the sound was not simply added afterwards? In which case it could have nothing to do with the actual car in the movie. In fact, I would assume that is what he did, no matter which car he used.

I thought I had read somewhere that Lelouch admitted that he used a Mercedes sedan.

 

Er.....Setsunaaa.......if you see a round red sign with a white horizontal line through it in France, then doesn’t that mean ‘No Entry’ ? And wouldn’t that be placed at the start of a one way street?
Come to think of it, what would be the point of placing it at the start of a street that ran in your direction?

 

Forget my last post. I think I'm wrong and you're right about the one way signposts. Running through old memories of french streets the entry of a one way is marked. Sorry!

 

Is there anyone out there who would be willing to loan me their DVD copy of "Rendezvous"? Or I may be willing to trade something of value for it, perhaps one of my duplicate copies of Automobile Year?

Yes, I'm serious. Yes, I'm too cheap to pay $29.95 plus shipping for it. I made a pledge many years ago NOT to purchase a copy until the price went below $20, and I'm sticking to my pledge. I don't care how good it is, I'm not paying $37 for a nine minute movie.

I didn't even own a DVD player until Christmas, now I have a cheap one, but I've only watched one movie on it (which sucked).

Thanks! Jeff / Miltonian

 

Do you remember this, the original street vid? Recommended in full screen view.

I've just ordered the DVD from spiritlevelfilm.com. I've been looking for a quality copy for ages.

Talk about a mean camera angle!


http://media.drive.com.au/?category=&rid=12144&rate=898&sy=drive&source=int14455r&t=6CF741&player=wm7&ie=1&flash=1

 

uh oh

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I can think of only one Ferrari V12 that would be up to the task.

All we need is a camera mount - oh, hang on - we've got one of those!

 

has john been on to yet re SFR

 

V12? i saw that years ago, and i thought it was an F40? might be a different film.

but speaking of V12's... i might have another guest on the next SFR...

 

not so sure you've got anywhere to stuff a suckmount down there... hello lipsticks!

 

i searched, and i noticed some have talked about it here..but i dont think anyone has posted the video and if they have i apologize. but this video deserves a repost...

http://www.flaeche-schub.de/eike/blog/files/rendezvous20_04.mov

 

Wasn't that car a Mercedes? I believe this was discussed elsewhere on F-chat.

 

No one really knows what car it was. Its fairly likely that it was a 275

 

If you are speaking about the film Rondezvous, I've only heard a 275GTB and Matra as what the car was.

 

Whatever the car that idiot was driving, I have never seen the streets of Paris that EMPTY and I used to live there