Like a precursor to the recent success Best of Youth (albeit with more wit and self-parody), We All Loved Each Other So Much follows three friends from their youth as resistance fighters during World War II to their jaded and slightly defeated adulthood in the early 1970s. Ettore Scola, a screenwriter turned director responsible for many classics from the “golden age” of Italian comedy, mixes his usual flair for humor with a more nostalgic tone in this portrait of a postwar generation whose ideals have changed through the years. His heroes are a hospital worker still committed to class justice, a lawyer committing himself to wealth, and a film professor most committed to cinema (he loses his job due to his defense of The Bicycle Thief, and attempts a seduction by reenacting the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin). With performances by Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, and Stefano Satta Flores that are at once melancholy, powerful, and joyous, We All Loved Each Other So Much hits upon politics, country, and history, but dwells most of all on friendship.