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À propos de Nice

193025 minFrance
Documentary

Synopsis

Nice appears through work, leisure, street activity and carnival spectacle. Wealthy visitors relaxing along the promenade are set beside the labor and poverty that support the resort city. As celebrations give way to more pointed visual associations, the film turns the pleasures of watching a fashionable destination into a critical view of its social divisions.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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22:51
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Wikimedia Commons · Jean Vigo · Public domain

DirectorsJean VigoBoris Kaufman

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Vigo and Boris Kaufman combine observed street life with expressive editing. The city portrait became Vigo's first film, using the familiar attractions of a travel subject to question the way of life they advertise.

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