Pourvu qu on ait l'ivresse

In a popular dance hall in the outskirts of Paris, a shy and awkward young man watches the pretty girls without finding the courage to approach them. At the high point of the party, he puts on a mask and finally asks a girl to dance with him. When the music ends, he leaves the dance hall.

"My first idea was to make a movie about the boredom, the sadness and the emptiness of Sundays. I did the filming and the editing virtually alone. I wrote the script as I filmed, and above all, as I was able to convince the characters that interested me to recite in front of the movie camera" (J.-D. Pollet, 1959).

"A work dealing with solitude and at the same time a poetic view of dancing in the suburbs, Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse reveals a filmmaker who manages to convey in his filming the same tenderness Raymond Queneau feels for his friend Pierrot, but also the same fierceness of Jean Vigo towards Nice" (J.-L. Godard, 1959).