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Claude Lelouch – C’Etait un Rendez-Vous (1976)

Before Paris, Je T’Aime was ever conceived, Claude Lelouch declared his love for all three at once – a city, the cinema, and a woman. As the note at the start of his short film says, the footage wasn’t sped up. It was Lelouch himself who drove through a morning city on a neck-breaking speed, to embrace his beloved – and to meet some of Paris’s best-known and loved landmarks and corners. 8mins 39sec of an urban road-movie still feel contemporary and not a bit outdated. Is love?

This brilliant short road-movie inspired many hommages. And in 2006 Mr Lelouch was interviewed about making the film and drove the distance again, which you can enjoy in a new version below. English and French subtitles are available.

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