International Classics
BICYCLE THIEVES
Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Sunday, June 23rd at 2:15 PM
Hosted by Fred Craden
$16 Public | $10 Members
Hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Oscar–winning Bicycle
Thieves, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man
is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his
desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his
young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Profoundly rich in human
insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of
the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and
brutal honesty. (1948, 89 mins)