Claude Lelouch - C'était un Rendez-vous (1976)

[INHeadKay]

Sitting in a Montmartre hotel on Rue Caulaincourt, the car passes the building my hotel is now just before the Montmartre cemetary. Its 1AM, and Im thinking to myself why would anyone want leave this beautiful city, its a fairy tale. Going to take a walk to Basilica Sacré Cœur now to enjoy the view of the city at night. I love this city!

[whereszorro]

at 0:41 i was expecting Cavendish to overtake him

[Epeolatry1]

There's something about this film that's very poignant.

[41haga]

J'adore !

[BossaNogi]

9 people should not be allowed to watch cinema

[itsonlyoldskool]

i just came

[stoogalent]

he did the shoot with a Mercedes because of it super smooth suspension then redid it with a Ferrari to get the sound of the engine

[KongoOttov2]

@stoogalent Exactly! he use his own Mercedes Benz 450 SE 6.9.

[brianbot5000]

This video is great until you read more about how it was made. Still a classic of course. But there are some parts where the car is definitely not going as fast as it should have been given the gear and engine revs.

[cmill497]

How funny would it be if the girl at the end fucked up her part after all that driving.

[benkata]

breath taking film making.

[cheg21]

GTA Paris x)

[Iluvcarsforever02]

The sound at 5:47 is beautiful, I had tingles down my spine!

[TheVindelli]

6:01 GET OUT!!

[SuperSedans]

Legend...

[1985cecco]

più precisamente è una Mercedes 450sel 6.9 W116 del 1976.

[1985cecco]

la macchina è una Mercedes 450 SEL altro che Ferrari!!!!

[chrisdyckk]

Drive brought me here

[jossers1]

And let us not forget that this was largely driven on cobblestone paved streets!

[multibulss6666]

What car is it?

[notwhitney]

Thanks for the outstanding upload!

[notwhitney]

@TheChosenOne360 the Wikipedia article, which all the "authorities" on here appear to be referencing, is vague and where it is not outright incorrect, is unsubstantiated. This film is a 36 year old classic. It has influenced thousands of other films at a minimum. If you're not someone who already shoots motion footage, get down to a decent library and read a book about it ... there are plenty.

[poorake]

Problem, officer?

[fiberrmy]

v tec kick in yoo

[harostar]

does anyone know where we can see the version without ferrari sound?? i want to hear the MB :)!!

[pugufutus]

The car is a 4-door Mercedes (director's own) and at times it reached 200 km/h according to Lelouche himself (see 2006 interview). The dubbing from the Ferrari engine is beautifully done and adds to the drama. The short film is all about passion (see exquisite blonde dawning from the stairs) and could never have been done in our heavily controlled "nanny-era". What a relief that a) it was made and b) it was safe!

[ddriver22]

read about it first you trolls....

In this video its actually just a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 with a Ferrari V12 275 GTB dubbed over it

[03iamhopeless]

@ddriver22 indeed :) well said

[heliopolis29]

Maybe a follow up,"Il a été un autre rendez" filmed in the summer or late spring. Sorry, just being a hopeless romantic....

[MrFistalicious]

@ VegetativeHorse

I'll say just this... Thank you for posting this great old school movie.... That is all...

Oh and i love chocolate :D

[VegetativeHorse]

@wolf175 Next thing you're gonna tell us is you dislike chocolate :-p

[wolf175]

@VegetativeHorse Actually: I like only black chocolate. That is the only one, that has some health-benefits :-)

[rdboy10]

@VegetativeHorse Lol...good one! Touche!

[TheReddevil0121]

@VegetativeHorse 1 of my freinds dont like choclete and im like sayyy whuuuuuuuuuuuuuut????????

[wolf175]

@VegetativeHorse I like only black one (healthier).

[progrsv]

@wolf175 he drove a mercedes benz. this ia the sound of a ferarri they put over.

[wolf175]

@wolf175 Excuse me: It should be "must" in the first line. Wolf

[KongoOttov2]

@wolf175 Who the fuck cares what you are thinking! Bloody moron!

[Freed33210]

Contrairement à ce qui est dit il y a un trucage, c'est une Mercedes 450SEL 6.9L MAIS le son a été doublé par un moteur Ferrari 275 GTB.

One thing, Mercedes 450SEL 6.9L BUT the noise of the engine was added with a Ferrari 275 GTB.

[heliopolis29]

@Freed33210 : Mais bien sûr.

[Freed33210]

@heliopolis29 il suffit de regarder le documentaire de Claude Lelouche ou il explique ce film, comment ils ont fait, pourquoi, etc

[Bmanator100]

no pigeons were harmed in the making of this movie.

[notwhitney]

@Bmanator100 you're right there, the crew had them spit roasted for lunch. mmmm!

[prazzomoto]

i wonder how he can hug his girlfriend with that kind of boner.

[London3123]

I found it interesting at first but after a while found it disturbing with the recklessness of going through red lights and watching people run out of his way. Then it became boring as it stretched on. I switched the sound off after a few minutes as it became cliché.

[multibulss6666]

I DONT CARE IF PEOPLE THINK THE VID IS FAKE, ITS STILL AWESOME!!! :)

[notwhitney]

@multibulss6666 it is awesome. Here's the news. The vid is not fake. Viewers' impressions are just wrong.

[penio1408]

this video proves that women are always involved in traffic accidents - no matter if they are driving or not :_)))

[splittrain]

Try doing this in present-day..

[VegetativeHorse]

Why this "what car was it" debate keeps going on when everything about it is written on the comments and why people keep telling me what I've already said is beyond me.

[bodiegroup]

you are correct. it's a 450 used to shoot it, but the audio is not from the mercedes. they dubbed the audio.



[notwhitney]

@VegetativeHorse is it just possible no one cares what you've just said? Oh wow imagine that!

[rms216]

who are you people saying it's a Porsche or Mercedes????? It's a Ferrari, plain and simple fact, look it up.

[notwhitney]

@rms216 only the sound is a Ferrari. It could have been a vegetable wagon for all the difference it would have made. LeLouche chose to use his Mercedes. I doubt it was for the suspension, that would have been too dumb. He probably used it because it was roomy, quiet, easy to see, and respectable enough so people wouldn't be too surprised when he went the wrong way down a one way street. In other words, the right equipment. The object is only to seem daring. Just conjecture.

[rms216]

@notwhitney Im fully aware of that, i forgot to throw in that little tidbit of information, he drove the route again in a Ferrari and dubbed the sound over the original footage recorded in the Mercedes, i believe...

[zeljkobreee]

It was merc 450 6.9

[CalabreseMPC]

this video is bullshit

and slow

[retafuy]

@CalabreseMPC Try to do it and post it on Youtube. If you've got the nuts !!!

[CalabreseMPC]

@CalabreseMPC Mate, it's not that hard to strap a camera to an RC car and add sound effects - i'll stick with driving my car on a sanctioned road and getting real footage.. ;]

[notwhitney]

@CalabreseMPC what kind of camera do you think you can strap on an RC car?

[johnkramme]

Porsche 911 = not

Ferrari 275GTB V12 = yes

Wiki says:

Claude Lelouch was arrested after his 1976 film, C'était un rendez-vous, purportedly featuring a Ferrari 275 being illegally driven at high speed through the streets of Paris, was first shown publicly.[citation needed] Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB to achieve the V12 sound effect

[bohemianracer]

@johnkramme OK, I'll give in. It's a Ferrari V12.

Thanks

[bohemianracer]

The sound of the engine is that of a Porsche 911, without a doubt.

Great end to the film. ;)

[VegetativeHorse]

@bohemianracer I kinda get why you would think that, judging by the texture of the sound, but it's a V12 and sounds like a 275, so it's a 275.

[TheLichy1]

@VegetativeHorse Mercedes 450 SEL 6,9 it's V8 not V12. And it's got a 3 gear automatic transmition and you can hear that in the video ;)

[VegetativeHorse]

@TheLichy1 Yeah, the only other possible explanation is that he recorded the image on his Mercedes and then recorded the sound of a different car. Which is impossibly high tech shit that no human would ever imagine., so it makes much more sense to declare that the 5 speeds that we're hearing are really three and that this is a V12 sounding V8.

[icedbunn89]

@VegetativeHorse I have to agree, it's no lazy V12 for cruising about and I've never heard an automatic downshift like that, especially on a 1970s Mercedes!

[retafuy]

@VegetativeHorse Claude Lelouch did the circuit a second time with a Ferrari, don't know what model, but he tells it in an interview.

[Shark00n1337]

@VegetativeHorse He recorded this on one car, I think it was a Mercedes but can't remember which. But the sounds IS from a Ferrari 275 GTB. You can hear the sound is adapted. Some gear shifts don't quite sync to the car's nose diving or lifting, and when he's redlining you can hear the loop.

[solracaraca]

@VegetativeHorse /watch?v=LDXFvtVlYcM&feature=r­elated

I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not, so why dont you watch this?

[VegetativeHorse]

@solracaraca Since the other possible explanation was the only one that made any sense, I must have been sarcastic. Now I wish people would stop arguing about what car it was because they wouldn't bother to read the comments. Thanks for the video anyway.

[jeanfrancoisrr]

@bohemianracer no it was a mercedes

youtube.com/watch?v=LDXFvtVlYc­M&feature=related

C'était un rendez-vous - Lelouch - Making-of - English Subtitles

[TheLichy1]

@bohemianracer No, the sound of the engine it is Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6,9...realy great film :)

[fritz287]

@bohemianracer ahahahah "without a doubt"... epic fail

[khurley424]

@bohemianracer Why on earth is this debate here? In the making of video LeLouch says that he shot it with the benz because it needed to have a smooth shot and the mercedes had a hydraulic suspension, but then went through and recorded the sound on a ferrari so a viewer could experience the feeling of power and gearshifts audibly.

[notwhitney]

@khurley424 LeLouche said a lot of things. He was wrong about the suspension. It makes the image cloudier because it micro-vibrates the camera body. He's said many things over the years including the claim that he was going 280+ kmh. This just isn't so. He could have been going 40 mph or 80 mph. No one could know. Obviously at times he's going less than 20 mph. All he has to do is move faster than the nearest moving reference point to appear fast. Watching the film, you'll never tell

[VegetativeHorse]

@notwhitney It's quite easy to calculate the time required to cross a certain known distance. I race cars and am quite used to doing this. I think his top speed is around 140-150 kph. It's illogical to assume that he lied about why he chose the merc, even if he was wrong. Which he wasn't, hydropneumatic suspension is indeed very suitable for this kind of work. People still choose old citroens as camera cars for this reason, just go to a horse racing track and you'll probably see one.

[chairsoft101]

Cool video :)

Just wondering.. what was the purpose of this short? Not trashing the video but just wondering. :)

[VegetativeHorse]

@chairsoft101 I think the words "short film" and the title summarize it :-)

[retafuy]

@chairsoft101 The end and the title are the whole sense of the film. And I think Claude Lelouch did it for the fun.

[Iluvcarsforever02]

@chairsoft101 I think he just wanted to see if it could be done, and luckily for us he managed to do it! I can't imagine doing this anywhere today, let alone Paris! :)

[waynehiggins]

This clips that good even Snow Patrol uses it in - Open Your Eyes

[lgomgf]

Cool vid, but the sound track doesnt match the speed... I dont know how many here ever drove a car at full throttle, but the camera clearly shows a much lower speed... other, the tire noise is way too late.

[VegetativeHorse]

@lgomgf I think (crude calculation here) that the car must be running around 150 km max, while a 275 GTB would hit the rev limit around 250. The sound makes if feel faster, but still it's a fast (and reckless) ride anyway :-) I think that the film is flawed due to dubbed soundtrack (not too badly made imo) but it's understandable, asthe Merc's hydropneumatic suspension made it a good camera car but must have sounded quite dull). Still a nice film with an appeal even for those who aren't car nuts

[Labara]

@VegetativeHorse the car was an mercedes 450SEL but the sound are from a Ferrari 275GTB

[polotek95]

@Labara : True, and the Mercedes was Claude Lelouche's car.

[polotek95]

@VegetativeHorse :Av Foch (the first big avenue before the Arc de Triomphe) he was running at more 200 km/h.

[notwhitney]

@polotek95 rubbish

[notwhitney]

@VegetativeHorse you're just quoting what everyone has known and written for over 30 years about this film. You know very little about shooting from a moving vehicle or developing the impression of speed. The Ferrari, had it been used, would have made a similarly stable picture. Likely better, since auto suspension actually adds vibration to the camera body. Sssshhh, such a secret!

[Kloth23]

@VegetativeHorse Lelouch said he was going over 200 on some long straights, which the car is definitely capable of, still, I don't know if we can believe him^^

But if you divide distance/time, you come up with an *average* speed of about 80 km/h over the whole journey, which is still quite impressive considering the sharp turns and narrow streets later on in the video. What's more impressive though is the number of red lights he ran without slowing down even a bit.

[noexluna]

And today probably the pilot is back to Mother Earth .. =)

[pbkoenigsegg]

the downshifts sound like f1

does this car have a sequential gearbox?

[rdboy10]

I'm thinking he replayed the film on a screen in front of the car, (I'm assuming he was using his personal Ferrari 275 GTB) that was on a dyno to record the engine sounds and dubbed the squealing tires later. You can hear a Ferrari on a dyno here: watch?v=DOQFKgvA9AU

[VegetativeHorse]

@rdboy10 No reason to doubt that as it sounds exactly like a 275 GTB. I was thinking about how he may have done it and reached the same conclusion. Maybe he just raised the car as it sounds like it revs quite quickly. Quite a complicated job to match it that well though. Also, not that it wasn't sick to drive through Paris like that, but I get the impression that on the soundtrack, he simulates braking later and stepping on the throttle earlier.

[lukemastaah]

@VegetativeHorse obvioulsly studio sound, otherwise the car must have had a 7-speed gear box. but clearly a v12 like you said.

[Frakto]

it's fucking amazing

[TheALNURO1]

what happen in 3:22- 3:24???

[VegetativeHorse]

@TheALNURO1 Sounds like a missed gear change, like it jammed for a second. It's probably simulated since it is known that Lelouch drove a 6.9, V8, Mercedes-Benz 450SEL on this film, but he dubbed the sound of what is clearly a V12 engine instead.

[TheALNURO1]

rendez-vous looks like burnout paradise

[Tiptoesan]

GTA...Old School.

[burnaamij]

Watch it with and without sound.

[digitalbeachbum]

Lelouch strapped a camera to the bumper of a Mercedes-Benz and started on a 9-minute wild ride on the streets of Paris at 5:00 in the morning. He dodged traffic, drove on the sidewalk, whisked around the Arc de Triomphe and went against one-way traffic all at speeds up to 140 miles per hour (225.3 kmh). He never stopped the car during the entire ride and treated everything in his path as an object to avoid. After almost 10 minutes of high-speed, terrifying driving,

[digitalbeachbum]

(continued) Lelouch parks his car at the Sacré-Coeur Basilica just as a woman ran up the stairs to meet him for a date. Lelouch opened his film to the public, and was arrested after the first showing for endangering the citizens of Paris during his reckless driving stunt.

[bonesquat]

I don't get it...it's just a fast car from 1976 flying through Paris...big deal. Snooze fest.

[rdboy10]

They say the car sound was recorded from a Ferrari 275 GTB driven by Alain Prost or ? on a dyno?

[Friedkin01]

@rdboy10 The driver has never been named by Lelouch.

[sanmusa]

I love this film! A true automotive classic! Thanks for sharing it in higher definition than previously available!

[26095]

Claude LeLouch... well known for his thrillers.

[Olson50]

And then Jeremy Clarkson woke up and had to change his underpants.

[coadking]

when was this video made?

[ifnh8u2be]

@coadking 1976

[NoireMouche]

@coadking '76 B.R. (Before Radars)

[linkspast88]

thks for uploasdin this.