Very Nice, Very Nice

1961 0h 7m EN

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★6.0TMDB · 40

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Synopsis

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Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, "Very nice, very nice." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Arthur Lipsett
Languages: English
Countries: Canada

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RUNTIME

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Tight 7-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 5

ERA

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65 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 5

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 5

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0055594 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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5 / 5

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Only 40 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Arthur Lipsett directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Canada. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 7-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
265 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4IMDB entry: tt0055594 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
5Only 40 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 7 min · 0h 7m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Very Nice, Very Nice (1961)

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What people are saying

CinemaSerf2024-04-28
★ 6/10
This is quite a feat of editing as it pulls together a fairly quick-fired montage of still images of faces and places coupled with some very short snippets of video tape to illustrate an urban landscape that consists of all forms of humanity. Happy, sad, young, old, joyous and loads and loads of yawning. It's peppered with seemingly random sound bites but by the end you might get a sense of it's purpose? Are we all now just pre-occupied with convenience and our own small world? Like a society of ants only not remotely collaborative? It's not really a film, more a photographic exhibition with a point - but it's still worth a watch.

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