{"id":478,"date":"2009-12-31T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=478"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:29:09","slug":"rendez-vous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2009\/12\/31\/rendez-vous\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rendezvous with "C’\u00e9tait un rendez-vous""},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, I’m no gearhead, but through my recent experiences with Forza 3<\/a>, I’ve gained a slight appreciation for the sound of a fine engine as it pushes the redline then drops down after a smooth shift. Engines actually sound differently at different revolutions. Who would have thunk?<\/p>\n

So when Wired<\/a><\/em> ran a story featuring a short film with Jay Leno taking his new AMG SLS out for a spin on the near-deserted early-morning streets of Los Angeles<\/a> in homage to a film called C’\u00e9tait un rendez-vous<\/a><\/em>, I was curious:<\/p>\n

You\u2019d have to be mad to try to remake Rendezvous<\/em>, Claude Lelouche\u2019s high-speed dash through the streets of Paris at dawn. Rendezvous<\/em> is a classic. A one-off. It is best left alone, as that remake The Run<\/em> showed.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not to say you can\u2019t riff off it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I located the source film thanks to the magical Internet, and while I was disappointed that the engine noises are seemingly dubbed in, unlike the Leno film, I wasn’t disappointed at all in the nine-minute slice of cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9 I found.<\/p>\n

(Update: The video was pulled by the rights holder. There’s a short trailer on YouTube posted by the rights holder, but I can’t recommend it, as they place annoying synth-pop over the driving, which is even worse than the dubbed engine noise.)<\/p>\n

It’s the little bit of artifice at the very end that makes this film art, rather than a reckless stunt. Without that scene, the literal “date” of the title, this is just a car driving very quickly through Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, I’m no gearhead, but through my recent experiences with Forza 3, I’ve gained a slight appreciation for the sound of a fine engine as it pushes the redline then drops down after a smooth shift. Engines actually sound differently at different revolutions. Who would have thunk? So when Wired ran a story featuring a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-verite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6238,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/6238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}