C’était un rendez-vous

On an August morn­ing in 1976, French film­maker Claude Lel­ouch moun­ted a gyro-stabilized cam­era to the bumper of a Mer­cedes 450 SEL 6,9 and had a friend, a pro­fes­sional For­mula 1 racer, drive at break­neck speed through the heart of Paris.

No streets were closed, for Lel­ouch was unable to obtain a permit.

Breath­tak­ingly insane.

UPDATE: Vimeo → You­tube. The movie is bet­ter in lar­ger size, though.

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3 Comments

  1. Jonathan Hollin
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 17:50 | Permalink

    Oh no, what happened to the video… and I thought it was a Fer­rari he was driving?

  2. Eero
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 17:58 | Permalink

    Dam­nit. They took it down.

    I did some googlin’ and found a mak­ing of clip. Appar­ently it wasn’t a Fer­rari after all… What a disappointment. :)

  3. Jonathan Hollin
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 19:03 | Permalink

    Yes I found the same inform­a­tion after a bit of a search. Seems it’s quite a fam­ous film — it actu­ally landed the dir­ector in jail!

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