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C'etait Un Rendezvous

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GIJoeBob

I read about this and had to find it. Freakin' awesome!

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C'etait Un Rendezvous -- the adrenaline-filled brainchild of director
Claude Lelouch, filmed in 1976. It's nine minutes of uncut, unaltered
footage shot from the front bumper of a car racing through Paris at
unconscionable speeds in the wee hours of an August morning.

There are zillions of rumors swirling around this one, some say the
car is a Ferrari 275 GTB Lelouch had just purchased, others insist it
was his Mercedes 450 SEL. The apparent raison d'etre for the film was
that he found himself with an unused gyro-stabilized camera for a
short while at the end of a shoot. City authorities denied his request
to block off streets for the film, so he did it illegally -- with the
help of one or more assistants communicating by Walkie Talkie (which
apparently didn't work right, leaving the driver flying blind).

Lelouch was most likely the driver, and may or may not have been
arrested following the film's initial screening, although we'll
probably never know the true story behind this crazy stunt.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs50TsdOyVI[/youtube]

Comments (6)

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Sacrelicious·
[url]http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html[/url]\r A cool Google Mashup that shows the route through Paris while the vid is playing!
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Raider30·
Personally I think they should have taken every car he owned and let anyone who was on the streets that night take a sledge hammer to them until they were nothing but little piles of scrap heap. The guy is a jackass.
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Kwazy·
JoeBob, I've actually got this on DVD as well as the Nissan 300Z homage made several years ago. Remind me closer to the LAN, and I'll bring/send it.\r \r The engine revs and tire squeals on the DVD don't always seem to match what you might expect during various maneuvers. I'm still in doubt about how \"authentic\" any of it is...but it's still really cool to watch :D\r
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Sacrelicious·
Actually, the reason the sounds are off are because he did it twice, once with the Mercedes for the footage (it was a very stable car) and once with the Ferrari for the engine noise.
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J-Cat·
hmmm... coulda killed a innocent family and for what?
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Barracuda·
Looked cool as hell to me. *shrug* I guess that's why he did it at dawn.