We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)

I saw this movie many years ago on television. The imagery and the relationship amongst the characters was so interesting and involving I couldn't blink. This story evolves around the friendship of three men and a woman they each have loved. Life will teach us and destroy us, but our friendship will always endure.The three Italian men became friends during WWII. Although they remained friends they each took different career interests which led them to grow apart only to have their reunions spawn occasionally over the years. The woman friend is somewhat loose and not regarded favorably as a quality person, but rather as a tramp.The theme here is time. Time determines how life will have formed their personalities, goals and dreams. Unfortunately all their dreams fall short and facing each other afterward is anticlimactic and depressing.By the end we are left with a feeling of sadness, cynicism, but a true account of how friendship and familial relationships come and fade. Life will be most cruel to the ones who are eager and sincere and the others will float through easily and unaffectedly.This is a cinematic masterpiece. It's a shame no one has revived it yet.

When 3 former Partizan(Italian guerrilla against the Nazis forces in the Second War World)and friends tear apart when the great war was over,their destiny flow in different ways,while Antonio(Nino Manfredi)and Nicola (Steffano Satta)only survive with underpaid work,Gianni Perago(a huge Vittorio Gassman)an average lawyer gets success when he marries Helade,the dummied daughter of a Count and Commendatore(such as a Governator to the American people)called Romulo Catenacci one rich elder,and Gianni handles the business of his father-in-law,allowing him to get a comfortable way of life,Luciana(Stefania Sandrelli)was fired by Gianni after she left Antonio,and her career as actress gets a relative success,when Antonio met her again,she had made a new life with another guy,in the final scene Luciana,Antonio and Nicola discover the new brand life of Gianni,and they came away when it was obvious.Gianni deceive them because he turned a haughty and greedy guy,but without who is ashamed of who,Scola left us with that final doubt.Great movie indeed,maybe the lapses of time could be not so clear and the ending was not so worked out,but if it had happened this movie would be perfect!,to name extraordinary cameos as Marcelo Mastroianni plus the genial Federico Fellini and in the celluloid Vittorio De Sica and his masterpiece "The Bicycle Thief",another underrated movie in this link,Perhaps Are crappy films as "Batman Begins" or the overvalued "Pulp Fiction"(What a filthy scene of rap ism against that black guy!)superior than that jewel?I would ask for all the American people to watch more foreign movies with quality and without CGI,FX neither PC special effects banging your head.This movie can show about the value of the friendship,love,thankfulness but in this material world those stuffs matter less than any special effect of the "Green Screen",open your eyes to end up such mistake. "We wanted to change the World,rather the world changed us" an amazing phrase told by Nicola,it's to never forget.Watch more good movie,less junkie virtual reality!

A great movie by a great director in a unique creative state of grace. Some of the scenes are pure poetry: the sudden change from b/w to colour picture (underlined by a moving music score), the dramatic conclusion of a night out in Piazza di Spagna, the overall feeling of nostalgia permeating the entire movie. Yes, this is a movie that will age like good wine. You can grow old with this movie, watch out not be caught too much into its spires of nostalgia. Just glance at Vittorio Gassman last, defeated, cynical look in his face, here the actor and the man are one and the same. The rest of the cast are just as effective and well sorted, nothing is out of place, the synergy between Manfredi, Satta-Flores, Sandrelli, and the great Aldo Fabrizi will keep you enthralled. Simply cinematographic art at its best.

Such a "the way we were" on the Italian way in this film of early 70's. The film shows a journey: a journey of three friends and a woman through dreams and defeats, from post-war period to italian economic miracle (during the sixties)."We would like to change the world, but the world has changed us" tells one of the protagonists. And that's all....!