The Icicle Thief Movie Review 1989

"The Naked Gun" for the art-house 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. Study up on your postwar Italian cinema and this'll seem hilarious; otherwise the real fun doesn't kick in until the halfway point. In Italian with English subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 93 minutes.
Originally from Italian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Satire & Parody

Screenplay

Maurizio Nichetti

Cast

Maurizio Nichetti, Cateria Sylos Labini, Claudio G. Fava, Renato Scarpa, Heidi Komarek

Cinematography

Mario Battistoni

Director

Maurizio Nichetti

Music

Manuel De Sica