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The Bike Thief strives to be to the Romanian expat community in London what Ladri di Biciclette was to the post-war Roman working class, and what A Better Life was to Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles, but completely misunderstands what those two films were trying to say – either that, or it’s simply a reflection of our cynical times. Unlike De Sica’s hero, The Bike Thief’s anonymous protagonist n...
