Re: [CR]"Le Velo de Ghislain Lambert"

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:30:58 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]"Le Velo de Ghislain Lambert"
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <001001c71d15$0975eaf0$4b20f259@049306920171>


Norris, et al,
     It's a great flick - I even use a line from the film as my favorite quote with my bio on my club's Web site. I.e.
        How many kilometers this year? How many on
        the fixed gear? (Monsieur Focodel from "Le Velo
        de Ghislain Lambert") Unfortunately, I don't think the film is available for North American DVD players, unless someone in Quebec has decided to have a version made for that market in the last couple of years. I have a French version which plays well on my computer, as well as a few DVD players taht can be "hacked" for multi-zone playback.
     Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia, USA


--- Norris Lockley wrote:


> It rained in torrents here in northern England yesterday, so
> I decided
> to stop indoors to try a "mission impossible" - for me that
> is - and fit
> up a new television and DVD player rig that I have just
> bought.
>
>
> A combination of good luck and tenacity won the day ..so I
> sat down and
> debated with myself as to just which DVD I should celebrate
> my good
> fortune..."A day in Hell", "Tour de France-The Early Years",
> "Stars and
> Water Carriers"... No it was none of these but a cycling film
> made for
> "grand diffusion" - the masses, and released in Belgium (I
> think) in
> October 2001.
>
> "Le Velo de Ghislain Lambert" is a MUST-SEE for anyone
> interested in the
> glorious days of Belgian cycling in the 1970s. All those
> wonderful
> highly coloured team jerseys..Brooklyn, Sonolor, BIC, Frisol
> ..and of
> course MAGICREME grace the film. The film itself is pure
> fiction, but
> based on superb observation.
>
> The film relates the story of a young man, born on the same
> day as Eddy
> Merckx, and only eight minutes apart, who has aspirations of
> emulating
> his hero. The Blurb on the DVD cover says "..This isn't the
> history of a
> champion that we are going to relate to you, but that of a
> "petit
> coureur" who dreams of glory, and whose only problem is that
> he lacks
> the legs that his heart deserves . He sees himself as the
> worthy
> successor of Merckx... winning the Tour, breaking the Hour
> Record...but
> it is in the guise of a drugged-up loser that he will finally
> cross the
> finishing line.."
>
> The film manages to depict all the fun, tension and colour of
> the
> Belgian racing scene of those days... even down to the beer
> tent and
> jazz band, such essential parts of any criterium in the 70s.
> Then of
> course there is the "pot Belge", references to Francesco,
> Carlos..and
> such a collection of bikes such as Flandria, Peugeot..and
> TODEKA
>
> I bought my copy of the film in France, but have Googled to
> find copies
> more locally. They seem to be available..but whether the
> system of
> recording will play on American DVDs, I'm uncertain.
>
> I cant think of a much better way, over Christmas, when you
> are fed-up
> of eating turkey and watching those nauseating festive
> programmes than
> to put on your favourite Belgian cycling jersey and black
> shorts, settle
> down with a few bottles of Belgian beer..possibly with chips
> and
> mayonnaise in the musette, and to just let yourself soak
> up..so much
> atmospere. The film is hugely entertaining..very funny..and
> of course
> full of cycling goodies..It's 113 minutes of pure
> self-indulgence..and
> it's got sub-titles if you can handle the technology..
>
> if you just love loving a loser..buy this film - you won't
> regret it!
>
> Norris Lockley..still laughing..Settle UK
>
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