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

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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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