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French director Claude LeLouch made a film called C’etait un Rendezvous that featured a car being driven through the streets of Paris at dawn, by someone who would not stop for any reason - not lights, not cars, nothing. And the whole thing was done in one take. When it was shown in 1976 the public outrage caused it to be banned. Those are the facts. The rest, 36 years later - since LeLouch wouldn’t ever reveal who drove or what he (or she) was driving - is still myth, legend and Wikipedia supposition.
The mythology is still so potent that a search on YouTube will bring up the movie itself, the making of, and a ton of videos about the movie or made in homage to it, like this one by Lamborghini. Fitting that it is no longer relegated to the small screen with a Blu-ray release courtesy of the UK’s Spirit Level Film.
The launch of the home version is accompanied by a contest that will see someone getting a Ferrari for a weekend and a driving club membership. If you watch it, you’ll find the film itself is almost just as entertaining, and Hunger TV has a longer piece on its background. There’s a trailer for it just below along with a press release announcing the Blu-ray edition.
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