C'était un Rendezvous is a short film made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch, showing a high speed drive through Paris. The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning in August 1976, accompanied by sounds of a high-reving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch. Well-known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the... Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, center lines are crossed, the car drives on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish truck. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper .
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| Release date: | 1976 |
| Directed by: | Claude Lelouch |
| Runtime: | 8 Minutes |
| Genre: | Short Film |