Rendezvous

Rendezvous (1976)

C'était un rendez-vous

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Date of release
1976-01-01
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (92)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Action, Romance
Director
Claude Lelouch

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

C'était un rendez-vous is a 1976 French short film directed by Claude Lelouch, showing a high-speed drive through Paris.

Production

Shot in a single take, it is an example of cinéma vérité. The length of the film was limited by the short capacity of the 1000 foot 35mm film reel, and filmed from a (supposedly) gyro-stabilised camera mounted on the bumper of a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9. A photo has surfaced that seems to reveal an Eclair cam-flex 35mm camera with a wide angle lens, and a typical "speed rail" hard mount—no gyros—on a Mercedes.

On the chosen course there were two people who knew to expect Lelouch. First there was Élie Chouraqui, his first assistant, who was posted with a walkie-talkie in the Rue de Rivoli, behind the archway exiting from the gardens of the Louvre palace, meaning to assist the driver at the only blind junction (archway); Lelouch however revealed that the radios failed, and if Chouraqui had tried to warn him of a pedestrian the message would not have been…

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