12pt9<p><a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Bales2023FilmChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bales2023FilmChallenge</span></a> March 18: Sports car racing on <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/InternationalSportsCarRacingDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalSportsCarRacingDay</span></a></p><p>A man and a woman meet and fall in love. The woman – Anouk Aimée – still mourns the loss of her stuntman husband, while the man – Jean-Louis Trintignant – is alone since his partner took her life, incapable of dealing with his near-fatal crash at <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/LeMans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeMans</span></a>. <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Trintignant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trintignant</span></a> came from a family obsessed with race car driving and was an avid amateur driver himself. His uncle, the <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/GrandPrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandPrix</span></a> racer Maurice Trintignant, can be seen driving a <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Maserati" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maserati</span></a> Tipo 151/1 during the race scene. </p><p>A deceptively simple <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> by Claude Lelouch, with an equally breezy soundtrack by Francis Lai. This is Un homme et une femme (1966).</p><p><a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/AnoukAim%C3%A9e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnoukAimée</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/JeanLouisTrintignant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeanLouisTrintignant</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/ClaudeLelouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClaudeLelouch</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/FrancisLai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrancisLai</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/FilmMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FilmMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/CineMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CineMastodon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>film</span></a></span> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bale</span><span class="invisible">s2023filmchallenge/</span></a></p>