French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a professional Formula 1 racer, speed through the heart of Paris.

Though the route and film was carefully planned, Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. Everything you see is filmed live on the streets on an early August morning in 1976. Speeds reach nearly 140 miles per hour. Lelouch was arrested at the first public showing of the film. The film has become an underground classic.

The unbelievable roar of a classic Ferrari produced by Scaglietti and the squeal of protesting tires, the lack of dialogue, stirs the soul.

UPDATE: The video was pulled from Vimeo shortly after I posted my entry. Likely a copyright issue, this doesn’t diminish the brilliance of the film.

(See also: sevenload: C’ÉTAIT UN RENDEZ-VOUS – short film by Claude Lelouch)
(See also: C’ÉTAIT UN RENDEZ-VOUS – short film by Claude Lelouch (removed))
(See also: Amazon: Rendezvous (1983))
(See also: YouTube: Rendez-vous Making of)
(See also: Wikipedia: Ferrari 275)
(See also: Wikipedia: Claude Lelouch)