Classic C’était un Rendez-Vous Mustang Race Reborn

Ford Pays Homage to the 40th Anniversary of Claude Lelouch’s Cult Film, ‘C’était un Rendez-Vous’

The 1976 short film C’était un Rendez-Vous features a classic Mustang racing through the streets of Paris. So how does one pay tribute to the 40th Anniversary of the cult film?

Remake it with a more modern twist, of course. And how do you do that? By sending a new 5.0-liter V8 GT Mustang fastback roaring through the streets of Paris.

To pull off the tribute, Ford tapped Claude Lelouch, who made the original short. C’était un Rendez-Vous wasn’t Lelouch’s first feature with a Mustang. In fact, he received an Oscar for the 1966 movie, A Man and a Woman. In that film, the main character drove a white ‘Stang in the Monte Carlo rally.

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The remake of C’était un Rendez-Vous seems to have rekindled Lelouch’s passion for the American muscle car, as highlighted in an About Mustangs report.

“I had goose bumps watching C’etait un Rendez-Vous forty years later in virtual reality. At the time, my movie was about the feeling of freedom and the pleasure driving generates,” says Lelouch. “I knew that Ford would do more than just a tribute to the original in this new version. I am delighted to see the Mustang again and to close the loop fifty years after A Man and a Woman.”

However, the new short (shown above) did take a bit of finagling to pull off. Many of the streets used in the original C’etait un Rendez-Vous film are no longer around. But with the use of technology like 360-degree views and virtual reality, we imagine that even die-hard fans of the ‘76 version will be mesmerized by the remake.

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