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The Icicle Thief ★★★ Ladri di Saponette 1989“The Naked Gun” for the arthouse crowd. As a stark, black-and-white neo-realist tragedy airs on TV, bright color commercials disrupt the narrative. Soon ads invade the the movie itself, and the film's director jumps into his picture to fix the damage.
The director Maurizio Nichetti is invited by a TV studio to introduce a screening of his best-known film, the neo-realist classic 'Ladri di saponette'. But Nichetti is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish colour commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the ...
"The Icicle Thief" needed dialogue, the way he seques from a tv broadcast of a film, blending the charactors crossing from the color commercial into the B&W film and charactors from his film migrating to the commercials was brilliant and surreal. The satirical throwback to neorealism of postwar itally worked quite well.
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The Icicle Thief won the grand prize at last year’s Moscow film festival, and soon after, I saw it in a packed house on the opening night of the 1989 Toronto film festival. It fully lives up to the promise of Ratataplan without any hint of repetition (pantomime and echoes of Tati are no longer apparent), and that joyful North American audience found it hilarious and wonderful.
"The Icicle Thief" does not grip or involve us, but like a clever child, it demands our attention and our tolerance. "The Icicle Thief," in Italian with subtitles, is unrated but suitable for all ...
May 23, 2003 · ‘The Icicle Thief’, a film made by director Maurizio Nichetti that is a modern homage to the school of classic Italian neo-realist cinema, is screening on Italian television. In the studio for an interview, Nichetti feels frustrated as the broadcast is constantly being interrupted by commercials.
The Icicle Thief (Italian: Ladri di saponette) is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Maurizio Nichetti, titled in imitation of Vittorio De Sica's classic Italian neorealist film The Bicycle Thief (Italian: Ladri di biciclette). Some feel The Icicle Thief was created as a spoof of neorealism, which predominated Italian cinema after World War II.
