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Lowell joins Bobby and Will for a boys' night of debauchery, and Kate insists that Jules gets special treatment because she's hot. Meanwhile, Andi becomes in...
Mark Kermode celebrates Vittorio De Sica's neorealist masterpiece as an "unstoppable, freewheeling force of cinema" that continues to influence filmmakers an...
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Apr 27, 2020 · I think Bicycle Thieves is a perfect movie that embodies a spirit of an age. That age is the post World War 2 era of poverty in major European cities, here in Italy's capital city of Rome. The...
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Jul 24, 2019 · Summary: In the economic depression of post-Second World War Italy, unemployed Antonio Ricci finally finds some work to support his wife and two children. The condition of the job as a poster hanger is that he needs to have a bicycle, but in order to feed his family Antonio had already pawned his bicycle.
Mar 19, 1999 · The story of “The Bicycle Thief” is easily told. It stars Lamberto Maggiorani, not a professional actor, as Ricci, a man who joins a hopeless queue every morning looking for work. One day there is a job–for a man with a bicycle. “I have a bicycle!”.
Bicycle Thieves, at first glance, is a small intimate little story, the kind you would expect to end with a neat, conclusive moral. It's the story of a poor but dignified man and his family, including his very young son who admires him immensely, and of that man's efforts to just get by.
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Where Citizen Kane heralded the age of the auteur and a cinema of passionate individual vision, Bicycle Thieves renounced “egoism” for collective concern, envisioning a cinema of impassioned social conscience.
