A follow-up to We All Loved Each Other So Much, and fittingly the last film chronologically in the Italian comedy series, La Terrazza sums up the inertia of Italian cultural life in the seventies. The characters of We All Loved Each Other So Much-many played by the same actors-are now eight years older, wealthier; they meet at posh gatherings on an old Roman terrace. In flashbacks and flashforwards, Scola fleshes out the sad state of this small intellectual community, now having fully succumbed to the loss of their ideals and creative impulses in the age of mass media. Only the women are a partial exception to this rule (claiming their own after two decades of being an afterthought in the comedies). Featured are Vittorio Gassman as a restless Communist, Ugo Tognazzi as a self-made producer, Marcello Mastroianni as a disoriented magazine editor, Jean Louis Trintignant as a depressed screenwriter; and emerging are Carla Gravina, Stefania Sandrelli and Ombretta Colli, bound at last for a modicum of self-fulfillment. Mira Liehm writes, "The revolution they once dreamed of has been forgotten, and disillusionment has taken over entirely.... Scola shapes their self-derision, their manias, and their exhibitionism with a feeling for clear-cut situations and characters...."