Dimanche was intended as a didactic film in which “the problem of leisure” would be addressed. “I was summoned to the Cinéma de l'Éducation Nationale and the director said to me, ‘We would like you to make a film about the problem of leisure.’ Internally, I burst out laughing. What is free time? Joe average who doesn’t know what to do on Sunday? (...) I did not know what free time meant. No more than vacation. One is always on vacation anyway. Unless you’re a lawyer, but then you brought it on yourself, dammit,” Edmond Bernhard said back in the days.

Bernhard does not fall into the trap of making a “thematic film.” Without any form of commentary, he uses extraordinary images that sublimate ordinariness (boredom on Sunday, a jogger in a forest, a soccer game) to construct this exceptional film about the feeling of emptiness and the fossilisation of the world.