Ladri di saponette

1989
PG
1h 34m

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Parody Comedy Crime Fantasy

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA movie resembling Le voleur de bicyclette (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.A movie resembling Le voleur de bicyclette (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.A movie resembling Le voleur de bicyclette (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.

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- 6 victoires et 7 nominations au total

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This movie makes extensive references to Le voleur de bicyclette (1948), starting with the title. This is done through a movie within the movie, sharing the same title and also using characters resembling those from the older film in name and appearance. "Ladri di Biciclette" means "The Bicycle Thieves"; while that is sometimes used as an English title, it is better known as "The Bicycle Thief". The Italian title of this newer movie, "Ladri di saponette", is a play on "Ladri di Biciclette"; it means "The Soap Thieves", and this apparently refers to the dialogue where Maria tells Bruno not to use up all the soap when washing his hands, remarking to Antonio that he must be eating it. The English title of the newer movie, "The Icicle Thief", has no relation to the Italian title but instead is a play on "The Bicycle Thief". It is tied to the movie through three lines of dialogue referring to chandeliers (one of them stolen during the movie) so sparkly they look "like icicles" - but this word occurs only in the English subtitles! The corresponding Italian dialogue does not use the word "ghiaccioli" meaning icicles at all. It refers to other sparkly objects: twice to "pèrle" meaning pearls, and once to "gocce" meaning drops of water.

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When Maria is cooking the spaghetti she breaks the sticks in two. But when the baby,Paolo, is playing with the bowl the sticks are full length.

Citations
Film Director: Where's the bicycle?
Bruno Piermattei: I sold it.
Film Director: Sold it? But with those bicycle wheels, you were supposed to make a wheelchair for your paralyzed father.
Bruno Piermattei: My father's quite well.
Film Director: Too bad! He should have been hit by a truck while riding home from the factory with the chandelier on the handlebars and your mommy should be whoring to feed the family.
Bruno Piermattei: What's that?
Film Director: You wouldn't know. You're too little. You and your brother should be in the orphanage.

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Varlaam has it wrong.

This movie is not supposed to make you laugh. Nor is it merely a parody of "The Bicycle Thief". It is a meditation on the way Contemporary Italian Directors are treated, or mistreated, in current-day Italy. It is also a reflection of how these film directors are Intellectual shunned by "Intellectual" film critics in favor of more time honored classics such as "The Bicycle Thief" and also how films are treated by the Television Companies, which produce or co-produce most modern Italian films. Personally, I think it's a great and bizarre film which owes alot to Fellini's 8 1/2. the way the three worlds in the film begin to inter-weave is very clever. If you like weird movies that trancend meta-levels, See this now!