In 1971, Jackie Stewart, a world champion F1 racer, and Roman Polanski, spent a weekend together during the Monaco Grand Prix. This three-day meeting became the starting point for Frank Simon’s Weekend of a Champion, honorable mention at the 1972 Berlin Film Festival but never commercially released. 40 years later, Polanski decides to reedit it and add an epilogue to it: his reunion with Jackie Stewart. A rare portrait of one of the world’s greatest racers and the numerous changes times has occasioned in Formula 1. Cannes Classics 2013.