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BICYCLE THIEVES is an example of Italian Neorealism, a movement in cinema that strove for greater realism in the cinema as it focused on the lives of ordinary people. The movement’s filmmakers often employed non-professional actors to bring (as noted in the textbook) greater verisimilitude to the roles they played. With this in mind, compare the performance of non-professional actor Lamberto Maggiorani (the father in BICYCLE THIEVES, a factory worker at the time of filming) to any of the professional actors in WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT. Is he more believable, “realistic”, naturalistic?