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

In 1976, after finishing his it completes movie, Claude Lelouch gives with a spool where ten minutes of movie habian not used. Then it has the shining idea to organize a species of race in the French capital. Without requiring no authorization , and with the aid of some of its collaborators, Lelouch decides to make the film by a beautiful morning of August, thus counting on the advantage of a somewhat slight circulation. With exit from the door of Dauphine to Montmartre, it selected of shining way the route by Paris Av. Foch, Pleases of l'Etoile, Champs Elysées, the Concorde, Louvre, Opéra, Pigalle, Montmartre. The car is a Ferrari 275 GTB4 Daytona. The film has almost 9 minutes, in speed it completes the route of the streets of Paris, and when he presented/displayed the film to the public, the director was asked to give the information of that habia drived the car, answered that it was done by a pilot of F1, but rejecting to reveal its name. More ahead, after some investigations, they arrived at two names, Jacques Laffite and Jacky Ickx.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5967384923877111213

 

i love paris. i love language barriers even more, though

"rejecting" to reveal the f1 pilot's name...haha


and that movie is EFFING awesome. i just came back from studying there abroad for 4 months...ahh memories

 

There have been many threads on this short movie.

 

"The car is a Ferrari 275 GTB4 Daytona"...lol

 

i never would have searched for this.

 

thats an understatement

 

I would venture to say that it is one of the best car scenes of all time!

 

agree, although I do love the Derek Bell Le Mans in-car vid where he's blasting down the Mulsanne Strait at 240+.

 

Just behind the chase scenes in Bullet, The French Connection and The Blues Brothers. ;-) I've seen this little film a dozen times at least, and I still love it.

 

That's OJ at the wheel.

 

This one of the few, and I really mean "few" reposts that I would "never" complain about.

And the previously mentioned Porsche 956 video at LeMans being one of the others.........

 

I still think it's the best Ferrari porn I've ever seen!

 

"species of race"
"door of Dauphine"

Did Google do the translation?

 

How do you know it's a Ferrari?

[ominous music]: duh-duh-duh

 

Links to a few of the f-chat threads:

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86036&highlight=rendez+vous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93921&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91380&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86538&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87002&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86036&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85044&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84211&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82901&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75631&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1320&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37959&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36383&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24576&highlight=rendezvous

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19012&highlight=rendezvous

Regards,

Art S.

 

The French Connection ? I bought the DVD just because i had heard so much about the car chase. Nothing spectacular.. The Blues Brothers , Gumball rally , Ronin , Bullit are far better .

 

For some reason, I remember the car in the film moving faster the first time I saw it. Towards the beginning of the film, he appears to be running wide-open in either 4th or 5th gear, depending on whatever the car is he's driving, yet he *appears* to pass the other cars by 20mph or so. I would expect it to look like they were standing still if he was running flat out on city streets in ANY car, Ferrari or not, but that really doesn't seem to be the case.

Aaron

 

Lelouch was driving his own Mercedes (not a Ferrari). There is a picture of the car with the camera mounted and Lelouch beside it in a French book that is currently available about him and all his films.

Jonathan

 

Now that's funny right there -- I don't care who y'are!!

Proof that there's something "dodgy" with the soundtrack is that none of the cars honk their horn. For anyone who's driven in Paris, where drivers honk their horns at drivers for seemingly no reason whatsoever, it casts a few questions about the authenticity of the sound..

 

Paul,

It was shot at 5:00am in August, so you would expect too much in the way of honking and one horn is still heard (just after he zips past a lady walking across the street).

Single take, not sped up, across Paris, runs 24 (+/-) red ights - great ride! (even if it was dubbed). Get a wide screen TV and a great stereo (or good headphones) and enjoy. My head still spins when I'm done.

Oh and by the way, it sounds very similar to my car (modified Ansa).

Regards,

Art S.

 

I just watched it for the first time in several months. Still my favorite movie! Bullitt but distilled to its essence and more intimate - not mention 1970's Paris as a backdrop.

Art S.

 

I'm no expert on film, but I too was wondering where all of the road sound was. Here are my thoughts on this. With most professional film systems, and this was shot on what, 16mm? The sound would have been recorded on a different device from the film camera, and then in post production, the two are matched up. What if the film maker put a mike only under the hood to record the engine sounds? Would that take out a lot of the other sounds we would expect to hear? I wonder if it was shot silent, and then he tried to match sounds to the film later with a completely made up sound track? Under any scenario, I don't think the sound was recorded directly to the film (like most 8mm cameras from the past). If the mike was on the front of the car, we would get an insane amount of wind noise and not much else. Just my 2 cents.

 

You are correct. In this French book http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2702135927/qid=1143530967/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_9_1/402-5449387-3183359 Lelouch discusses all his films including C'Etait Un Rendezvous. Lelouch was the driver and the car was his own Mercedes. The Mercedes is pictured with the camera mount attached (I believe the car is white, but the picture is black & white, so can't be sure). Of course, it is much more interesting to believe it was a Ferrari driven by a racing driver than a four-door Mercedes driven by a film director!!!

Jonathan

 

See here : http://memoiresdestands.hautetfort.com/archive/2006/03/24/c-etait-un-rendez-vous-priorite-3.html

 

Rendez-vous by Lelouch, very excellent !
I seek this video since 2 years !
thank you.