... Bicycle Thieves is "one of the first examples of pure cinema. No more actors, no more story, no more sets. The perfect aesthetic illusion of reality." The film portrays an odyssey through Rome by Antonio Ricci: thanks to Zavattini's theory of "pedinamento" - the following of someone - the audience is conscious of what the character in the film is doing at all ... ...

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