I decided to review Ettore Scola's film "We loved each other so much" / C'eravamo tanto amati, 1974, once again convinced that a good movie was made then. I looked at it for the first time, because I didn’t remember anything except the general impression.
Three friends - Antonio (Nino Manfredi), Gianni (Vittorio Gassman) and Nicola
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I decided to review Ettore Scola's film "We loved each other so much" / C'eravamo tanto amati, 1974, once again convinced that a good movie was made then. I looked at it for the first time, because I didn’t remember anything except the general impression. Three friends - Antonio (Nino Manfredi), Gianni (Vittorio Gassman) and Nicola (Stefano Satto Flores) - met and became friends during the war in a guerrilla unit. The war ended, each of the friends returned to the usual pre-war way of life, but the relationship became not so close, because they moved to different cities, and their occupation was very different, and they belonged to different social circles - Antonio worked as a medic in the hospital, and then in the ambulance, Gianni went to work in the law office, and Nicola began to work as a teacher in Sicily. Once by chance, Antonio met Luciana (Stephania Sandrelli), who dreamed of acting in a movie and in which he instantly fell in love, moreover, he had to introduce her to one of his friends, as they fell in love with her and for some time brought them together. But life was very difficult, she constantly brought them together and divorced them, sometimes (as in the case of Gianni) of their own choice, when he essentially abandons Luciana, even knowing that because of her love for him she tried to kill herself, cowardly watching from around the corner as friends took her away from home, marriages occurred, some of which broke up, but this connection between them, as it turns out, to some extent remained, did not pass without a trace, but life still divided them in different directions. A separate theme in the film is the theme of cinema - the film itself is dedicated to the memory of Vittorio de Sica, Nicola is seriously interested in cinema, unsuccessfully trying to publish a magazine about cinema, but as a result, content with the role of a journalist writing about him, in the film we see even shooting Fellini's film with the participation of Mastroianni (a scene from the "Sweet Life" at the Trevi Fountain), Nicola listens to Vittorio de Sica'ica's performance at some festival, shows friends a scene on the staircase from the "Battleship Potemkin". In the end, life brings friends and Luciana together for a brief moment, we see who she ended up with. When I saw the film, I liked it again, although I probably saw it a little differently when I was young.
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