Le Mans Phenomenon

Title	Le Mans Phenomenon
Year	2008
Links	Official Web Site PDF with Details Order via official shop or send an email to bpa@bpa.cz
Featured Teams	Charouz Racing Aston Martin Racing


My Comment	The aim of this film is not a motorsports documentary, but rather an artistic depiction. Classical music juxtaposed with “flying monopost”, playful camera angles, creative edits, postproduction effects, and perfect Dolby SR sound allowing the viewer to feel as if they were in the racecar itself. A screenplay with a storyline was intentionally created to create the mood of a film with actors. All of these will put this documentary into a field of its own -- a field where emotions, passion and maximum enthusiasm take first place. The atmosphere of the race was recorded by six cameras, which the director controlled with the use of a communication system which the company Zipo Film created especially for this purpose. I was full of high expectations when I read about this movie... maybe too high. I expected a more artistic kind of a movie: More close-ups in slow motion accompagnied by drifting atmospheric sounds... unfortunately none of these are part of the movie... in the end it is just a documentary like those movies from other teams. So "Truth in 24" by Audi is still my Number 1 movie about Le Mans...


My Rating	3

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