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Ep 10 // Bicycle Thieves

Published: May 21, 2021, 7:34 p.m.

It\u2019s Lora\u2019s 2nd pick: \u2018Bicycle Thieves,\u2019 the 1948 film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It\u2019s an emblematic example of the neorealist movement that developed in Italy after World War II, depicting the lives of everyday people struggling to get by, and mostly cast with non-professional actors. It was voted the #1 greatest film of all time in the very first critics poll Sight & Sound magazine did back in 1952. Since then it\u2019s placed #7 in 1962 and as a runner up in 1992. It was also on the directors poll, at #6 in 2002 and #10 in 2012.

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