Review(s): DVD C'eravamo Tanto Amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much)
one movie about directors and life
Movie about other movies is commmon (Trauffats "la nuit ammericaine" one of the best, other in the absence of ideas directors do remakes), but over directors, politics and social life is rare. This movie is a tribute to great italian directors: De Sica, Rosselini and Fellini. Besides it shows how the social life changes in Italy after wars, since Mussolini times up to the sixties having love as background. I hope all Scola's movies will be in DVD soon, as La Cena and other.
A Life-Changing Work of Art, A Profound Experience
I did not know what to expect when I brought an old VHS copy of this film home about 12 years ago - I was 16 at the time, and a lover of Italian culture. Director Ettore Scola demonstrates with clarity, elegance and most of all - true beauty - what IS important in life, in this exceptional film whose obscurity is a adequate statement of our cultural value deprivation.
Where else can one see a critique of Marxism, narcissism & power-lusting, while still demonstrating all the opportunity for goal-achievement in one's own life?
Grande!
Amor, felicidad, avaricia, soledad, poder, todo junto en una pelicula maravillosa. Mi escena preferida es aquella del colegio en la que, mientras al fondo se canta "E Io ero Sandokan", Gianni le confiesa a Luciana que la ha amado por 25 años, recordandola todos los dias. Ella le responde, "yo no".
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