Nice...(bullseye)

Resembles the "city symphony" pieces of the time but is more Bunuellian in tone, skewering the bourgeois and sending out a call for revolution among the common people. Vigo makes powerful, and often hilarious, use of juxtaposed shots to mock the idle rich and ultimately endorsing their destruction. We see upper crust types looking bored and lazy contrasted with the lively working class, unprivileged but vibrant. Vigo's fearlessness in editing and camera movement is evident.

It takes a dull and pointless genre which would show a day in a city with all its inhabitants and goings on but instead of embracing the genre turns it on its head with subversions and distortions of traditional techniques and ideas which make it interesting from a film making point of view and also open it up to analysis in its treatment of social classes. It is beautifully put together and rather enchanting.

A pleasant little film that stands out thanks to some visual creativity from Vigo and a very enchanting score.

"Visually fascinating, this short showed Vigo's directorial promise."

Interesting but too frantic; inquiringly, Vigo observes streets, buildings, legs, faces etc. with a camera often close to the "action"... Annoyed faces are repeatedly captured with great curiosity by the filmmaker.

Very pretty.

The "city symphony" genre had reached its heyday by 1930, so Vigo was able to rely on conventions already established, but his portrait of Nice is a respectable entry in that legacy and I suppose the more cities the merrier. To its credit, it is more tongue-in-cheek than propagandist examples like the Berlin one or Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera".