C'était un rendez-vous
- Claude Lelouch: driver of the car
- Gunilla Karlzon: Waiting lover
C'était un rendez -vous is a French short film by Claude Lelouch in the year 1976.
The nearly nine-minute film shows the breakneck drive a car through the early morning Paris on a Sunday in August. Lelouch even covered the distance from the Porte Dauphine to the Basilique du Sacré- Cœur in Montmartre, as previously thought, in a Ferrari 275 GTB in less than eight minutes ( uncut ride in the movie 0:17 to 8:13 ) back but in a Mercedes- Benz 450 SEL 6.9. Lange had been conjectured, a professional racing driver had been sitting at the wheel, such as Jacky Ickx and Jacques Laffite.
Lelouch himself claimed to be driven at speeds of more than 200 km / h.
The camera was mounted on the bumper, and the film was shot without a cut because Lelouch from just wacky film A touch of tenderness had numerous film roles left and she did not return, but wanted to make a short film. They used for the actual drive the Mercedes -Benz because of this with a hydropneumatic suspension combined, the suspension characteristics allowed for the almost verwackelungsfreien recordings a powerful engine with 210 kW and a maximum torque of 550 Nm at 3000 rpm. By attaching the camera to a sports car, the vibrations while driving have an unstable image supplied. In order to achieve more dramatic, Lelouch was later the sound of the Ferrari, which left again exactly the same route, put on the old track.
During the journey, sat next to Lelouch two other people in the car: his cameraman and his Key Grip. The woman who comes at the end of the film started up the stairs, was Lelouch s girlfriend Gunilla Karlzen.
The rock band Snow Patrol used with permission by Lelouch the film for their music video Open Your Eyes (2007).
Distance traveled
Tunnel on the boulevard périphérique at Porte Dauphine Avenue Foch → → → Arc de Triomphe Avenue des Champs- Élysées → Place de la Concorde → Quai des Tuileries → Louvre Jardin du Carrousel → Grand Opéra Paris Galeries Lafayette → → → Trinité Pigalle Boulevard → de Clichy → → Place Blanche Rue Caulaincourt Montmartre → up → Avenue Junot Rue Norvins → → → Place du Tertre, Sacre Coeur