Agenda Municipal / Movies Bicycle Thieves

Sun 17 Jul
Cinema Paraíso programme (roaming around the parishes)

Castelões | Centro Social e Paroquial (park) - 22h00

Free entry. Come, bring a warm coat, a blanket or a beach chair.

Original title: Ladri di Biciclette (Italy, 1947) | Directed by: Vittorio De Sica | Cast: Enzo Stajola, Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell | Rating: M/6 | Running time: 90 min.

The odyssey of a father and son through the streets of Rome in search of a stolen bicycle, indispensable to their work, the zenith of Italian neo-realism, has the grandeur of a classic tragedy, one of the most moving portraits of a father and son relationship. Bicycle Thieves has occupied for seven consecutive decades a top place in the canon of the best films of all time. Right from its premiere, it generated great enthusiasm in Europe and America, and André Bazin described it as a masterpiece, perfect and sublime, and claimed that De Sica was the greatest Italian director. Cesare Pavese said that the great chronicler of the Italy of his time was De Sica. It was also in the streets, where he would film, that the director went looking for his interpreters: Lamberto Maggiorani, the father, was a mechanical worker, and Enzo Staiola, the son, discovered him among the peasants. "It was necessary for this worker to be at the same time as perfect, anonymous and objective as his bicycle."

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