Decades later, you can see the influence of «Bicycle Thieves»
everywhere in a variety of genres and languages, from the work of the Belgian Dardenne brothers and their stripped - down focus on the hardships of ordinary, working - class citizens, to last year's acclaimed «The Florida Project,» in which Willem Dafoe is the rare established actor, serving as the glue in a cast of neophytes in Sean Baker's tale of poverty on the fringes of Disney World.