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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Best movie of this year hands down!

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's Formula One. The movie starts at the Monaco Grand Prix. Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand) is the past champ tired of racing. Nino Barlini is his brash Italian teammate. American Pete Aron (James Garner) crashes his car severely injuring teammate Scott Stoddard. Scott's wife Pat (Jessica Walter) is eager to leave the racing life. American journalist Louise Frederickson (Eva Marie Saint) covers the races.The technical aspect of the race filming is ahead of its time. Director John Frankenheimer uses the real tracks and gives the movie a real racing feel. It is miles ahead of its competitors and comparable to modern race coverage. It isn't always clear between the drivers but there are plenty of great shots of the drivers' faces while driving. Away from the races, the movie is rather ponderous and slow. Those scenes are static in comparison both in movement as well as drama.

Grand Prix is ALWAYS slammed for what John Frankenheimer once called his choice to make a "Grand Hotel" picture rather than a "Test Pilot" picture, but that's got it all wrong. Except for length, this is one of the great date movies of all time: insane machines on the edge of disaster, men who makes the insane choice to go there with them, oodles of sexual politics and romance under great pressure, gorgeous...I mean GORGEOUS imagery of spectacularly beautiful places and a remarkable score to match, one of Jarre's most hummable in a long career of hummable orchestral scores. It is the most emotional movie about racing anyone is likely to make and it has been a source of sheer wonder to me why most critics dismiss it as "soap opera with gasoline" and the like. Maybe I should do a two-hour date movie cut...like almost all of the Cinerama roadshow pictures, it IS too long and that's it's one major failing. I first saw it over two nights on NBC about a million years ago; it's probably better that way. Play to the intermission, pick it up again the next night. Except for Yves Montand, who seems to have been incapable of giving anything less than an intriguing performance, this is not an actor's showcase by any means, but everyone's OK or better and the movie is really about extreme and exotic situations involving people, rather than about the people themselves. It's a snapshot of a particular moment in European racing history that has far more dramatic potential than today's Formula 1: obscenely dangerous cars and circuits, a pre-sponsorship economic model that meant few drivers made any real money (certainly nothing close to what the risks they took were worth) and a certain c'est la vie attitude about the safety of both drivers and spectators. Only the truly obsessed played this incredibly deadly game.Shot on 65 mm, it's probably always looked great, but on current Bluray/upscale/4K gear, it's just stunning. It quite literally looks like it was shot on top-tier digital last week. Because sports are a kind of news event, seeing the largely deceased male cast (and a great number of real drivers who later perished in crashes; the first recognizable face in the film is Lorenzo Bandini, who was killed at Monaco the following year) with this kind of visual immediacy is actually a bit disturbing. It's not like watching Citizen Kane; gorgeous as the current Bluray is, you never find yourself thinking "What's Joe Cotton doing alive?" You may very well have that thought about Jim Garner or Brian Bedford, as they look almost as if they are in a live feed from Monaco. "Le Mans" is (probably) the best racing film ever made for racing fans. Grand Prix is the best racing film ever made for everyone.

Films dealing with Grand Prix racing have always mis-fired. Some of have tried to be realistic such as Le Mans and ended up boring its audience. Others such as Days of Thunder or Driven have gone more for the crash, bang wallop but been let down with its soap opera plots.Grand Prix tries to do both but its seriously let down by its length which is almost 3 hours, a bland lead in James Garner whose character is underwhelming and the laughably poor romance plotting.The film concentrates on four grand prix drivers. James Garner (Pete Aron) has lost his drive after an accident which severely injures another race driver Brian Bedford (Scott Stoddard) and manages to find a Japanese team whose owner likes his winning mentality. Scott's wife, Jessica Walter walks out on Bedford as she cannot stand his racing attitude and takes up with Garner, a fellow driver which makes little sense.The most effective character is Yves Montand (Jean-Pierre Sarti) the champion racer who has had enough of the dangers of the sport and his sub romance with a magazine journalist, Eva Marie Saint works much better. Antonio Sabato (Nino Barlini) is the young hot shot, a team mate of Sarti and a playboy.The film was made at a time when safety in F1 Grand Prix races belonged to the stone age. Crashes and deaths in races were common. In fact drivers seem to spend a lot of time attending funerals of fellow racers and the film taps into this era hence why Montand looks like veteran who has lost his nerve. Bedford needs help just to get in and out of his car after he comes back from his injuries and needs painkilling injections but still has the need for speed and the ability to win races.Director John Frankenheimer catches the thrill of the racing, some of the machinations of the Grand Prix teams such as Ferrari playing mind games with Montand. The film has real life race drivers in the background such as Graham Hill.James Garner as the main lead, although a capable actor is let down by the script. His character is bland and fails to convince as a leading racer and the romance with Walter looks misconceived. Racing drivers are driven, selfish even while enjoying a playboy lifestyle.It now looks like a film of its time but its not going to be destined as a classic.

Want to know the difference between Formula One today (2014) and in 1966? The last death on track was Aryton Senna in 1994. (2016 edit) Well, that didn't last long. At the Japanese GP in 2014, the rain was coming so fast the stewards pushed the race along, one car went off in the rain and before the giant tractor could get that car off the track, Jules Bianchi's car submarined the tractor and he was killed after a long battle in the hospital.Watch the documentary "Senna" and the new movie about Lauda/Hunt called "Rush" and you will have the essence of F-1 racing from the mid 1960's to the mid 1990's.In 1966 when this film was made open wheeled racing was extremely dangerous. There are cameos by about 30 Formula One drivers in the movie. Within 5 years 1/3 of these men had been killed.I drove on the old course at Spa Francorchamp in Belgium (featured in this movie) in the 1960's and used to do Club Racing in the US. There were no run-off areas at Spa to speak of and houses were right on the edge of track. One little slip and your 1400 pound car hit a cement/stone/concrete three story house. The house would win. Driving back then on these courses was insanely dangerous. The cars were unsafe compared to today and the tracks were crazy. Watch this movie and you will see why Jackie Stewart and others decided that driver safety is paramount and changed the sport for the better. You will have no better idea of those days than to watch this movie.I watch this movie every 5 years or so and it just as good every time.