Drama
The Bike Thief
To the Rider his moped is everything. As a pizza delivery driver it is his livelihood. As a breadline straddling, immigrant father it is his family’s anchor. It takes his wife to work. It gets his daughter to school. So when one night the moped is stolen, his world collapses. He has to get back his bike – or replace it – in whatever way possible, before his next shifts starts. If he fails, he won’t just lose his job, he will lose it all. He tries to ask the few familiar faces for help in this unfamiliar, disorienting city. However, as he runs out of time and his options are wearing thin, his moral compass begins to crack and he grows more and more willing to forgo his conscience in order to save himself and his family.
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Top Cast
Alec Secăreanu
The Rider
Anamaria Marinca
Elena
Aaron Neil
Yusef
Lucian Msamati
Victor
June Watson
Nan
Amir Boutrous
Slowpoke
Dempsey Bovell
Constable Milner
Chicho Tche
Michael
Directed by
Matt Chambers
Production
Ugly Duckling FilmsReviews
tmdb28039023
1/108/27/2022
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 not only never really even bothers to look for his scooter, but he also successfully manages to steal its replacement – in fact, he resorts to theft, something that the main characters of those two other films only consider after exhausting all other alternatives, almost immediately So clueless is screenwriter/director Matt Chambers, that recovering the vehicle represents as little sacrifice as
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