Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 4 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Memorial Union Building Theater II
C'eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ettore Scola • 1974 • Italy • 124 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Paula Salvio (UNH)
Beginning with World War II and following its protagonists to the present day of 1974, Ettore Scola’s C’eravamo tanto amati is a love letter to the history of modern Italy and modern Italian cinema. Antonio (Nino Manfredi), Gianni (Vittorio Gassman), and Nicola (Stefano Satta Flores) are brothers-in-arms in the partisan war effort. When the war ends, however, their paths diverge. Antonio is a working-class nurse, now married to Luciana (Stefania Sandrelli). Gianni takes a job at a law firm, supporting shady political dealings to support a lavish lifestyle. Nicola, cinephile, flees to Rome after losing his job due to his progressive political leanings.
The dynamic and not always amicable brotherhood between the three protagonists act as a stage for Scola to examine the development of Italy and Italian film from the war to his own time. Chance meetings between the men lead to wives being stolen, political arguments, and many references to the classics of cinema. Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica (to whom the film is dedicated), and Marcello Mastroianni all cameo as themselves.
Film scholar Emiliano Morreale observes that “Ettore Scola’s more mature phase began with this tableau of the generation that had been part of the Resistance and either saw their hopes dashed or integrated into society.”
This film has been restored by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of the Cineteca Nazionale, Rome, Italy, with funding provided by StudioCanal, from the original negatives provided by Pio Angeletti and Adriano De Micheli’s Dean Film. Color grading carried out at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, supervised by Luciano Tovoli in collaboration with the film’s DoP Claudio Cirillo.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/ceravamo-tanto-amati/
Beginning with World War II and following its protagonists to the present day of 1974, Ettore Scola’s C’eravamo tanto amati is a love letter to the history of modern Italy and modern Italian cinema. Antonio (Nino Manfredi), Gianni (Vittorio Gassman), and Nicola (Stefano Satta Flores) are brothers-in-arms in the partisan war effort. When the war ends, however, their paths diverge. Antonio is a working-class nurse, now married to Luciana (Stefania Sandrelli). Gianni takes a job at a law firm, supporting shady political dealings to support a lavish lifestyle. Nicola, cinephile, flees to Rome after losing his job due to his progressive political leanings.
The dynamic and not always amicable brotherhood between the three protagonists act as a stage for Scola to examine the development of Italy and Italian film from the war to his own time. Chance meetings between the men lead to wives being stolen, political arguments, and many references to the classics of cinema. Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica (to whom the film is dedicated), and Marcello Mastroianni all cameo as themselves.
Film scholar Emiliano Morreale observes that “Ettore Scola’s more mature phase began with this tableau of the generation that had been part of the Resistance and either saw their hopes dashed or integrated into society.”
This film has been restored by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of the Cineteca Nazionale, Rome, Italy, with funding provided by StudioCanal, from the original negatives provided by Pio Angeletti and Adriano De Micheli’s Dean Film. Color grading carried out at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, supervised by Luciano Tovoli in collaboration with the film’s DoP Claudio Cirillo.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/ceravamo-tanto-amati/
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