We All Loved Each Other So Much (Movieland)

We All Loved Each Other So Much

C'eravamo tanto amati Italie 1974 | Ettore Scola | vostEN | 124’ | digital | Cast : Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefano Satta Flores, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Fabrizi

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Three Italian partisans, including one who loves cinema more than anything else, are bound by a strong friendship. They return home after the war, but the clash with the reality of the postwar years, and their shared interest in a single woman, puts a strain on their bond.

« Ettore Scola's wise, reflective Italian comedy examines 30 years of recent Italian social history in terms of the friendship of three men and the one woman each man has loved at one time or another. It's the sort of thing for which European film makers, especially Italian, have a special feeling, while Americans have none whatsoever, if only because American producers are made uneasy by movies that are about friendship and that attempt to cover so much time. The film is full of fondness, rue, outrage and high spirits. It is also — surprising for an Italian film — packed with the kind of movie references that French filmmakers like, and it is dedicated to the late Vittorio De Sica, whose Bicycle Thief plays a prominent part. » (The New York Times)