Beijing Bicycle

Wang Xiaoshuai transports de Sica's neorealist spirit to modern Beijing in a story of a stolen bicycle and the dignity attached to it. Two young men-one who needs the bike for work, another who believes he bought it fairly-collide in a city where ownership and survival are daily negotiations. The film is spare, humane, and quietly suspenseful, ending not with righteousness but with understanding; Mandarin with English subtitles.