A washed-up club owner serves drinks to dreamers while drowning in his own mob debts.
Lucien Lourmel, in his fifties, lonely and tired, runs the nightclub "P'tit Bleu", where young talent performs. He is a member of a mafia-like organization that he runs with two friends
Acting
Etienne Chicot's exhausted eyes do all the talking.
Direction
Vautier shoots the club like a purgatory waiting room.
Director
François Vautier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was François Vautier's only fiction feature after years as a documentarian; he reportedly cast Chicot after seeing him in a stage play and rewrote the role specifically for his hangdog energy.
Released during a wave of French cinema examining post-industrial masculinity, it was completely overshadowed by 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped' and remains nearly impossible to find legally.
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