C'était un rendez-vous (déjà vu) [Janez Janša, Quentin Drouet]

In April 2007, the Slovenian artist Janez Janša went to Paris to shoot a remake of C'était un rendez-vous. Like the original, the video lasts 9 minutes, has the same soundtrack, is preceded by the same caption and features the same route used by Lelouch. The difference can be seen in the camera's point of view, which is much closer to road level, and at the end of the video, when the vehicle stops and we come face to face with the waiting date: not an attractive blonde this time, but a tortoise. According to Janša, the remake was filmed with the camera mounted on the shell of a "Golden Greek" tortoise, accompanying its "race" through the streets (at a speed which never exceeded 0.32 km/h) and then compressing the film to 9 minutes. Like in the original, "red lights are ignored, one-way streets are violated and centre lines are crossed."
With C'était un rendez-vous (déjà vu), Janez Janša did not just create a remake of a media artefact, namely Claude Lelouch's film. The reinterpretation does not view C'était un rendez-vous as a finished artefact, but as an open work, which includes the production process and the legends it has generated, and skilfully managed, for more than 30 years.

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[GinoFavero94]

jajjjaa muy bueno el video la tortuga mato xD