Rendezvous (C'etait un rendez-vous) (1976)

Director: Claude Lelouch Genres: Audio-Visual, Thriller Origin: France Running Time: 9 min

synopsis

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris. * The film was shot in a single take, without any special effects or stuntmen, with the director driving the car. * The idea for this film came to Claude Lelouch after hiring a gyro stabilized camera mount for a film he was working on at the time. * While Claude Lelouch refuses to say who the driver was (although believed to be an F1 driver of the time) the car was his own Ferrari 275 GTB. * The film is nine minutes long because the film cartridge in the camera could only hold 10 minutes of film and it was taken in a single shot. * There was no confirmation of who was driving or what car he was driving. Sources variously claim the car to be either a Le Mans Matra 675, Ferrari 275 GTB, or, more recently an Alpine A110. * Lelouch was arrested shortly after the film was screened but was later released without charge.