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

The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning, accompanied by sounds of a high-revving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch. Well-known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, center lines are crossed, the car drives on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish truck. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper (judging from the relative positions of other cars, the visible headlight beam and the final shot when the car is parked in front of a curb on Montmartre, with the famous Sacré Cœur Basilica behind, and out of shot). Here, the driver gets out and embraces a young blonde woman as bells ring in the background, with the famous backdrop of Paris.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Lelouch
• rendez-vous
• Paris
• car
• stunt
• yt:stretch=16:9

[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.

[VegetativeHorse]

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

[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

[KongoOttov2]

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

[KongoOttov2]

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

[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

[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.