The Bike Thief attempts to mirror what Ladri di Biciclette did for Rome’s post-war working class and what A Better Life achieved with Los Angeles' Mexican immigrant population—a portrayal of the Romanian expat experience in London—but it misses the point of those earlier films, or perhaps it simply reflects a jaded era. Unlike the hero in De Sica’s film, the unnamed central figure in The Bike Thief doesn’t really try…