tadpole-596-918256 Review of À Propos de Nice

À Propos de Nice (1930)

Historians of sensual depravity in film generally consider this French smut . . .

[6/10 · 31 March 2021]

. . . to be among the earliest brazen attempts among peddlers marketing sleaze aimed at arousing the prurient interests of perverted viewers to cash in on the weaknesses of the flesh. Some may argue now that A PROPOS DE NICE is tame by Today's standard for "adult videos." However, since it surely had a hand in rolling the filthy snowball down from the top of the once-pristine cinematic hill (which began with Mr. Edison's filmed sneeze in 1887), the Gallic gall in contaminating the World's silver screen with trash like this cannot be overstated.