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We All Loved Each Other So Much

We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati)

Movie · 1974 · 15 people

Ettore Scola directed C'eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much), a 1974 Italian comedy-drama whose screenplay he wrote with the duo Age & Scarpelli. It is widely counted among Scola's best films and is a notable example of commedia all'italiana; he dedicated it to Vittorio De Sica. The 118-minute film won the César Award for Best Foreign Film and the Grand Prize at the 1975 Moscow International Film Festival. In 2008 it was placed on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's list of 100 Italian films to be saved, films said to have changed the country's collective memory from 1942 to 1978.

The narrative is a long flashback across three decades. With a wistful tone and comic scenes, it follows the lives and disappointed youthful hopes of three men and the woman who stands between them. Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefano Satta Flores and Stefania Sandrelli lead the cast, with Giovanna Ralli, Aldo Fabrizi and Marcello Mastroianni also appearing.

The film deals with the conflict of the postwar Italian left between its ideals and the pressure to adapt to reality. It was also celebrated as a lively portrait of postwar Italy, showing social climbing and cynicism in the boom years from 1945 to 1970.

DirectorEttore Scola

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Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli Actor · 80 years old Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Mastroianni Actor · died at 72 Vittorio Gassman Nino Manfredi Stefano Satta Flores Aldo Fabrizi Giovanna Ralli Elena Fabrizi Luciano Bonanni Fiammetta Baralla Mike Bongiorno Armando Curcio Marcella Michelangeli Ugo Gregoretti Isa Barzizza

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History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Ettore Scola's film reads Italy from 1945 to 1970 through the lives of three men and the woman caught between them. The tension between the ideals of the post-war Italian left and the need to come to terms with reality is skilfully woven into personal choices. The climbing ambition and the cynicism of the boom years paint a vivid social picture of the period. Its place on the Italian Culture Ministry's list of 100 Italian films to be saved is no surprise; it is a valuable document for anyone wanting to understand how a generation's hopes wore away.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

A mature example of the commedia all'italiana tradition. In the script he wrote with Age and Scarpelli, Scola builds a flashback spanning more than thirty years and manages to hold sorrow and laughter in the same scene. As the paths of the characters played by Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman and Stefano Satta Flores cross around Stefania Sandrelli's, the narrative widens from a personal story into a panorama of an era. The dedication to Vittorio De Sica also reveals a wish to converse with its own film tradition. The César and the Moscow grand prize look well earned. My one reservation: the episodic structure slackens the rhythm in places, and the 118 minutes are sometimes felt.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Honestly, this isn't my genre. It's 118 minutes of long conversations, flashbacks and broken hopes, so if you want chases or suspense you'll get bored. Still, watching three friends change over the years was more interesting than I expected. If you're patient and like bittersweet comedy, give it a go; if you want pace, save it for another night.

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