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

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Ferrari or not, the soundtrack and the video are awesome!!!

For the myth to last for so many years, most were fooled into thinking it was in fact a Ferrari driving - good enough for my car porn viewing pleasure and have seen the video at least 20 times and counting

 

Hehe,+275!!!!

 

You gotta watch this video if you own a Ferrari and have ever been to Paris. Oh Hell, even if you haven't been to Paris. It's amazing, Paris in 8 MINUTES, cam on front bumper, more than a few close calls, and romance at the finish. C'est Magnifique!

Use full screen for a thrill...

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Spirit Level posts it on YouTube.It was actually Lelouchs' Mercedes w/a low mounted camera and a F1 Ferrari soundtrack added.Sorry bout that.

 

I had heard about this film for years. When I finally watched it....... it was painfully obvious that the game has moved on........ by quite a bit. It actually looked slow to me.

Or maybe I'm just a lunatic!

 

http://chadglass.blogspot.com/2012/02/renedezvous-redux-reflections-on-claude.html

 

One of my favorite films of all time. Some excerpts from the article, written from an interview with filmmaker (and once Ferrari 250 GTO owner - I think he owned the GTO that is now in Ralph Lauren's collection) Stephen Mitchell:

 

Yes near bottom of the article is Stephen pictured at the Ralph Lauren exhibition in Paris, standing next to his former GTO #3987.

It is depicted here, in its proper period-appearance from 1970, in a storyboard sequence from his upcoming book:
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Be very cool if they closed the roads and did it with a 458.

Sorry i cannot condone doing it while risking the safety of the General Public.

The original was very cool, but very irresponsible and dangerous.

 

You must not have been to Paris in a while. French drivers drive like that every day and faster. Last year we were cut off on the Rue Ponthieu by a guy in a Porsche boxter.. going at least 80 - ( I was doing 50) and he breezed thru the redlight, made a turn and gone! Its all the Velo cycles & scooters you have to really look out for.

 

At the risk of peeing on cherished legends, surely you all know by now that "this never happened".....no one was ever in any danger!

The reality was an MBZ sedan, driven at sedate speeds, early on a Sunday morning, with a totally under-cranked camera, and incorrect audio track dubbed in post production.

Not quite so romantic, I know.......

 

"I raced my GTO on Mulholland with ABC series actor Peter Helm and friends in an episode that was filmed and could have been inspired by Claude Lelouch."

Filmed?

Is it on youtube?

 

Just this....

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You are incorrect. The MB was driven at full speed. The only f/x work was the dubbed Ferrari engine sound.

 

Saw this years ago and it's still thrilling to watch today. There are a lot of myths and legends surrounding this thing, but the sound is supposedly that of a 275GTB overdubbed onto footage Lalouch shot from a camera attached to a Merc 6.9L 450SEL.

Rumours persist that it was actually Jacques Lafitte doing the driving in the 275GTB all along.

They'd throw you under the jail if you tried something like this today! Still, fun to watch including the "surprise" ending.

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Very nice sound! But it fits not that good.

Audio track was recorded at le mans, i have heard.

 

I have watched this film hundreds of time and still gives me a thrill.... Thanks for posting.

 

I think the rumours are wrong. Seems Stephen Mitchell (F-chatter krasnavian) has put this to bed, he was closely connected to Claude Lelouch whilst living in Paris around the same time.

http://www.velocetoday.com/renedezvous-claude-lelouch/


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Yes, he addresses it himself in this "making of..." video that he's interviewed in. It's just fun to think it really was Lafitte in the Ferrari.

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The rumors are right, I think!

Nobody said Jacques drove the Merc - the rumor says the audio track is recorded from the Ferrari 275 of Jacques Lafitte.

 

The greatest nonstop driving scene ever made on the streets of Paris, 8 mins long.
Claude Lelouch - C'était un Rendez-vous (1976)

Anyone know what car was used in the scene? It sounds pretty good!
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The car was a S-class, the sound is from a 275. Add to the fake that he was driving on public roads and brought other drivers and pedestrians in potentially considerable danger...

 

There is a making of video on youtube that's worth watching... It's a big mercedes v12 coupé, which had soft enough suspension for the shots to look good. The sound is overdubbed from Lelouch's 275.

I'm a fan.