"The Icicle Thief"
1989
Directed by Maurizio Nichetti

Maurizio Nichetti presents an energetic send-up of the 1949 Italian neo-realist masterpiece The Bicycle Thief while, at the same time, spoofing the ridiculousness of contemporary television commercials. The writer-director takes on a double acting role as a frustrated filmmaker and a fictional glass factory worker who steals a chandelier for his wife. Complications arise when the boundaries between the two stories collide. With Caterina Sylos Labini, Claudio G. Fava and Heidi Komarek. "This hilarious comedy is everything The Purple Rose of Cairo should have been and more" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Italian with English subtitles.
93 minutes.