À propos de Nice (1930)
- Directed by
- Jean Vigo
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 148 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This silent short documentary shows people in Nice going about their daily lives and enjoying a carnival. It contrasts leisure activities with the poverty and inequality that exist in the city.
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What happens
À propos de Nice is a 1930 silent short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman. The film depicts life in Nice, France by documenting the people in the city, their daily routines, a carnival and social inequalities. Vigo described the film in an address to the Groupement des Spectateurs d'Avant-Garde: "In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial... the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution." À propos de Nice was Vigo's first film. It was followed by Taris, roi de l'eau (1931), Zéro de conduite (1933) and L'Atalante in 1934, the year Vigo died. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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