Rendezvous (mini film)

[Garok]

Friend sent me this today


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547


Rendezvous
Claude Lelouch
8 min 39 sec - Jan 2, 2005

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.

The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground

 

[Blackjack]

Brilliant!
Amazing driving.
Few close calls and he nearly killed a dozen pigeons it's great
Really really impressive!

 

[Pirkel]

Hehe that's pretty impressive.

Reckless, dumb, macho

But impressive.

Ah but it was in 1978 ... couldn't do that anymore unless it's when France plays a football or rugbymatch

 

[Naffets]

Wasnt this posted a while back? :/

 

[kirennia]

You seen ghostrider? It's a modern day english equivalent except the bike and car drivers were clever enough to not print their own names anywhere on the dvd It's basically them racing at top speed along english motorways and trying to taunt the police into chasing them. Completely illegal too, of course.

 

[Lamp]

Ah those were the days !

Emptier roads and no CCTV

These days you're stuffed:

 

[Garok]

Someone got the short straw then

 

[Outlander]

Someone got the short straw then

I wants that its cool

 

[Jeremiah]

That video was cool !!! Like some early-version of midtown madness without the annoying French accents :worthy: