The car was driven by Claude Lelouch himself, and not a racing driver. The camera was mounted on the front of the car. The Mercedes had hydropneumatic suspension and was a better choice for the mission, driving on the cobble stone streets of Paris in high speed. Instead, it was Claude Lelouchs Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL, with a 6.9 litre V8. The car used for the movie was not a Ferrari. There were numerous rumours circulating, one that it was the directors friend and racing driver Jacques Lafitte who was speeding the car through Paris that morning, and that the car driven was a Ferrari 275 GTB. Many details about the movie were shrouded in mystery. The total of 18 red lights that the car accelerated through were also very real. Including the pigeons, buses and pedestrians. What you see is exactly how that early Sunday morning in Paris was. There is no cuts, and no special effects. The entire movie, from start to end, is in one long shot. ∺ guy who is going to meet a girl can take unnecessary risks because he doesnt want to make her wait. It is just as much as about sex and desire as it is about driving. According to the producer, Claude Lelouch, the intention was to capture the urgency when a young man rushes to pick up his beautiful date a late night. Translated to English, the title means It was a date. The only person you actually see is the a blonde woman approaching the car in the final moments - hence the name Cétait un Rendez-vous. It is all in one mesmerising take, there is no dialogue and there is no driver in sight. The short film was a major hit in the underground movie scene in the late 1970s and the early 80s. In a time long before GoPro cameras, a French movie director made an epic short movie featuring a car speeding through Paris on an early Sunday morning.
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