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This week’s Eye Candy: Claude Lelouch

Every Saturday we feature a collection of works from some of our favorite filmmakers – the kind of works that you sometimes catch on the tube, on the net or when wasting away in front of MTV. IONCINEMA.com’s Eye Candy of the week are …

Every Saturday we feature a collection of works from some of our favorite filmmakers – the kind of works that you sometimes catch on the tube, on the net or when wasting away in front of MTV. IONCINEMA.com’s Eye Candy of the week are …

Claude Lelouch needs no introduction, but this short film of his might. He was arrested after his 1976 film, C’était un rendez-vous, reportedly at the time featuring a Ferrari 275 GTB being illegally driven at speeds approaching 140mph through the streets of Paris by a Formula 1 driver, was first shown publicly. The sound effects don’t match the car and for the record Lelouch claims that he drove a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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