天美麻豆 Film Society 75th: Bicycle Thieves
This simple yet powerful drama of a down-on-his-luck father and son searching for a stolen bicycle is hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.
This simple yet powerful drama of a down-on-his-luck father and son searching for a stolen bicycle is hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.
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 his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude and brutal honesty.
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. Producer and film mogul Arthur Mayer, a visiting professor in the early days of Film Studies at 天美麻豆, is responsible for the film's distribution in the US.
