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Pour Un Maillot Jaune
Pour Un Maillot Jaune is a French 1965 documentary – described as a cinematic tribute – about the 1965 Tour de France. It was made by the French film director, Claude Lelouch. Lelouch is best known as the director of "Un Homme et Une Femme" ("A Man and a Woman" in English) in 1966.
The film.
"Pour Un Maillot Jaune" ("For a yellow jersey") follows the 1965 Tour de France not as a sports documentary but
fading down the heartbeat-like music to near silence, stressing each rider's lone and silent battle with himself. In more light-hearted scenes, the team manager Raphael Géminiani is shown angrily realising he has been filmed while he has been asleep, and the soigneur Louis Guerlacher is shown kneading a rider's muscles as though they were soggy baguettes.
The technique.
Unlike "Vive Le Tour", an earlier film by Louis Malle and with which "Pour Un Maillot Jaune" is inevitably associated, Claude Lelouch