Thieves Like Us (1974)

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In the barest of ways, Thieves Like Us resembles the iconoclastic Bonnie and Clyde, but unlike that film, Thieves doesn’t present us with anti-heroes seeking to dismantle the existing structures and paying for it. No, Thieves presents us with a group of idiots who just so happen to rob banks and be in the criminal business, because what else are they going to do in-between bouts of hanging out a... read more

One of the best Altman´s. Great sense of period in the air and in the road (the radio soundtrack is precise), the lost America before new deal. Keith and Shelley make a wonderful, naif, alternative, revolutionary couple without the Bonnie and Clyde glamour. Chicamaw is a stunning brute and Uncle T a nice corrupting old man.