The Bicycle Thief (aka Bicycle Thieves) (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948)

With the aid of his young son, a man scours Rome for his stolen bicycle that is vital to his gainful employment and his family's prosperity in post-WWII Italy, in this must-see classic from 1948, simply told and full of non-actors but superior to many contemporary mega-budget Hollywood films.

★★★★★

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Cock and Bull (追凶者也) (2016)

Unless it is all cock and bull, it might help to be familiar with the true case of murder in China's Yunnan Province upon which this "Chinese Fargo" is based because a mostly young Chinese cinema audience responded positively to this movie while I was bewildered and bored by its disjointed story which starts being told from the perspective of a father falsely accused of murder, switches to the perspective of a bike-thieving bystander, then finally tells the long and unremarkable story of a bungling assassin-for-hire.

★☆☆☆☆

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