C'était un Rendez-vous: Filmé par Claude Lelouch

Need a little adreanaline rush? Click here to get 9 minutes a unadulterated, uncut speed with this little cult classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyabObFKp0s

   

A big thank you to the just discovered (to us) Studio 109. Plenty of good debate on the authenticity of speed here, here and here...

According to Studio 109

"This short film by seminal French director Claude Lelouch presents a unique experience of the urban environment. A nine minute tour of 1970's Paris from a moving vehicle. There are some pretty tense moments as the driver speeds through the cobblestone streets. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the nuts and bolts of the film. Who was driving? What type of car? Was it staged? Has it been altered to make the cars speed appear faster? But the overwhelming consensus is that Lelouch himself was driving, the roads were not block off, and he reached top speeds between 90-140 mph in a Ferrari 275 GTB before ending his voyage at the Basilica Sacre Coeur."

via Studio 109

Comments

[Adam]

Actually Lelouch was later arrested for this stunt. We screened the film in the last year at Northwest Film Forum in our Search and Rescue program, a collection of discarded archives of 16mm films.
The film is absolutley remarkable!