Cinema Verite
Here’s your Saturday Gotta Have It DVD thing: C’était un Rendezvous is a ten minute film made by a French director in the 1970s. He strapped a camera to the front of his Ferrari and drove it through the streets of Paris at up to 140 MPH. He didn’t get a permit. Everything you see is real. The poor guy couldn’t even get a green light. Every traffic light in the first half of the filme is red; he blows right through them all. Things get really scary about 3/4 of the way through, with pedestrians, traffic circles, and garbage trucks. Near the end, there are a lot of birds flapping desperately to get out of the way. I think I recognize a couple of the streets from RONIN, another great movie of the 90s that’s too often overlooked. Maybe it’s just a style thing.
Read all about the movie here. You can watch it on the web, or you can always buy the DVD that’s now available.
Needless to say, don’t try recreating this film at home.
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November 20th, 2005 at 10:21 pm
Nice. Snagged it for the video iPod I’ll one day get.
November 21st, 2005 at 1:47 pm
That was really cool, amazed that no cop cars got involved.
Shout out to Ronin, one of my favorite movies. Some of those roads did look familar, I’m going to have to watch it again.