![]() Although the film was made before the advent of lightweight digital video cameras and Steadicams, Malle achieved his subjective effects by managing to get amazingly steady closeup footage at high speed of the riders as they stream down the roads lined with people. ![]() Instead, Malle concentrates on the gruelling experiences of the cyclists and how it might feel to be one of them in the race. In fact the basic scoring system is not explicated, and famous riders or winners are not identified at all in the film. (although one can assume that the French viewing public was quite familiar with the basics of this event). Little is said in Vive le Tour about the nature of the race or the various strategies associated with the peleton and breakaways, etc. Though Malle is mostly known to world audiences through his lengthy and successful career as a director of fiction films, I think his greatest talent was as a documentary filmmaker. Malle was still under thirty when he made the film, but he was already world famous for his vibrant and provocative feature films, Les Amants ( The Lovers, 1958) and Zazie dans le Metro (1960). ![]()
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