For a Yellow Jersey

For a Yellow Jersey (1965)

...pour un maillot jaune

The film follows the 1965 Tour de France not as a sports documentary but an atmospheric film of the events that surround it. Where riders are shown racing, it is an illustration of the hardship or the danger they face. The main events are the daily routines of the competitors, the bossing about of spectators by officials (which Lelouch emphasises by adding animal noises to the soundtrack), the monotonous days of journalists who follow the race for hours to write only a few hundred words, and the evening entertainment laid on by the Europe-1 radio station.

Date of release
1965-12-31
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
26m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Claude Lelouch

Casting

Interesting facts

For a Yellow Jersey is a French 1965 documentary – described as a cinematic tribute – about the 1965 Tour de France. It was made by the French film director, Claude Lelouch. Lelouch is best known as the director of Un Homme et Une Femme in 1966.

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