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24 lip 2019 · Antonio mocks her gullibility in believing in the occult. After starting the job he has his bicycle stolen and, finding the police see this as a relatively insignificant crime, he takes to the streets with his son Bruno and his friend Baiocco and tries to track down the thief.
17 lut 2020 · De Sica establishes a reality which is relentlessly hostile, where safety becomes intangible, and fairness is relative. This is best exemplified in the scene where Antonio finds the thief who stole his bicycle, and therefore left he and his son to starve if the bicycle were not recovered.
Bicycle Thieves (also called The Bicycle Thief) study guide contains a biography of director Vittorio De Sica, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
12 lut 2007 · 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.
19 mar 1999 · But if the film is allowed to wait long enough–until the filmmakers are dead, until neorealism is less an inspiration than a memory–“The Bicycle Thief” escapes from its critics and becomes, once again, a story. It is happiest that way. And its influence isn’t entirely in the past.
Bicycle Thieves is a fixture on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' and directors' polls of the greatest films ever made. The film ranked 1st and 7th on critics' poll in 1952 and 1962 respectively.
10 lut 2020 · Bicycle Thieves opens with the arrival of a bus – a sign of life – and the scattering of young men who assemble and follow a government agent to the steps of a makeshift employment office. Antonio Ricci’s (Lamberto Maggiorani) name is called for work, but he is nowhere to be found.
