维果称à Propos de Nice为point de vue documenté，而不是纪录片。片中通过尼斯小城里贫富场景的快速剪接来表达导演对法国社会巨大的贫富分化等社会问题的讽刺，乞讨的女人与晒太阳的女人，洗衣的妇人们与穿戴时髦的男女，花车游行中地上的残花与花园中采花的工人，肮脏的河边在垃圾堆里觅食的小猫立即剪接到舞厅中优雅的男女，这些都形成了鲜明的对比。其中，许多场景都充满了隐喻性。一个广场上坐着的女人，导演通过快速剪辑展现其不同的服装，最后变成裸体，不禁充满了超现实主义的意味；广场上，男人面部特写镜头切换到对面女人的胸部和腿部的特写；导演展现狂舞的女人时，使用了快进、慢动作的剪辑手法，及仰拍的摄影角度，女人们裙摆内的下体若隐若现；狂舞的女人、游行的队伍，镜头切向墓地，把尼斯这座小城充满了情欲与堕落的现实展露无遗。
该片摄影师鲍里斯考夫曼，是苏联导演吉加维尔托夫弟弟。这部短片遵循维尔托夫的“电影眼睛派”的美学原则，既注重摄影的真实性，又注重剪辑的变现力。萨杜尔称这部短片是“先锋派末期一部强有力的作品，是法国第一部具有社会主义意义的纪录片”。
鲍里斯·考夫曼Boris Kaufman, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who shotJean Vigo's oeuvre and helped introduce a neo-realistic style into American films, was born on August 24, 1897, in Bialystok, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. The youngest son of librarians, the Soviet directors Denis Kaufman (a.k.a.Dziga Vertov, meaning "Spinning Top") andMikhail Kaufmanwere his older brothers.Dziga Vertovwas one of the great innovators in Soviet cinema, the father of the agit-prop film, who directedChelovek s kino-apparatom(1929), and his brother Boris imitated his beloved camera tricks when he shot the documentaryÀ propos de Nice(1930) for Vigo.
The Kaufmans' parents decided to move to Moscow at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and Denis went to school in St. Petersburg. In 1917, Russia experienced two revolutions, one which overthrew the Czar and the later, the "October" Revolution, which overthrew the bourgeois democracy and established the Bolshevik Party as the new rulers of what they called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Denis and his brother Mikhail were enamored of the October Revolution and volunteered their services as filmmakersto the new socialist state. （来源：www.imdb.com/name/nm0442100/）
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