“Ettore Scola, who is perhaps the most enjoyable purveyor of personalized comedy within the second rank of major Italian directors, has not been released in the United States since The Pizza Triangle in 1970. Now he has updated his formula in a much sadder, more wistful commentary on post-War Italy that could be entitled ‘The Pizza Quartet' but which is opening with a more literal translation, We All Loved Each Other So Much...
Scola and his gritty screenwriters of popular Italian culture, Age and Scarpelli, are filmmakers who have something to say while they entertain... We All Loved Each Other So Much, dedicated to Vittorio De Sica...grimaces between smiles as three Italian males reflect a spiritual decline in their nation's mood.
Vittorio Gassman as a lawyer willing to bury his ideals in the comfort of a rich man's social blight, Nino Manfredi as a dim-witted Red never even able to organize the bed-pan brigade in his hospital, Stefano Satta Flores as a garret intellectual more faithful to the rallying call of neo-realism than to the needs of his family, and Stefania Sandrelli as their communal girl friend, who never rises above an extra role in La Dolce Vita, are bit players in a national crisis of confidence. From the partisan resistance of the mid-'40s to a social stagnation in the mid-'70s they inhabit the texture of a national experience as they flesh out their lives.” Soho Weekly News, 1977