A film so adored it was given an honourary Oscar in 1950 because the Best Foreign Film category didn’t yet exist – while critics at Sight & Sound waited just four years after its 1948 release before naming Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves the greatest film ever made. (Yet, 50 years later, they gave it just five votes.)
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willow138
Aug 21st 2010, 2:23
This film is stunning. It really captures the moment. We studied it in film studies at college and it was the one film we were made to watch that I never got tired of.
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