Although it was released on DVD last year, C’etait un Rendezvous, Claude Lelouch’s classic/notorious underground film, has turned up online. The film is a Ferrari-eye view of a flat-out race across Paris, shot in a single 9-minute take using a gyro-stabilized camera mounted on the car.
Now the web is filling up with stuff that should’ve been on that DVD. Folks have mapped out Lelouch’s route [from Porte Dauphine to Sacre Coeur] and analyzed the car’s average speed, landmark to landmark. I was discussing this with Alain Robbe-Grillet last night at dinner. [thunk. Sorry, did I just drop something?]
Find a download/streaming source at Jerry Kindall’s C’etait un Rendezvous post
Here’s one Googlemap of the route
Here’s a breakdown of the average speeds from The Physics Factbook
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