Customer Reviews

We All Loved Each Other So Much [VHS]

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3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
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This movie is one of the most moving love stories ever put on film; all you need to do is to wait until it is released in its entirety. I was stunned when I first saw it in the theatre, and although this was many years ago, I can still remember the emotion it evoked in me and how unique it was, albeit common life situation, the eternal triangle. This involves 2 men and a woman and there are scenes, one in particular, that break your heart.

*WARNING: Possible spoiler...toward the end of the movie they have their pictures taken in a photo booth, and the top pictures show them mugging and smiling; then the tragedy of their situation hits and the girl is shown, on the last frame, with tears and mascara running down her face; this hit me with tremendous impact and I was very moved by it.

Brigham Young University has promised to release this classic in its entirety; I strongly advise you to wait for the uncut version. It is well worth wating for, and on a par with "Les Enfants du Paradis." GREAT moviemaking...

This DVD version of C'eravamo tanto amati was created under a non-thatrical, educational software license. We did not have the legal right to show the movie in its entirety. It was originally created as an Italian language tool. We have since purchased the theatrical rights and are in the process of remastering the DVD to allow continuous play. The new version should be available in May.

Harold H. Hendricks, project director.

The Second edition of this DVD has been available since 2001. The first edition, which went to the menu after every scene, is no longer available. Neither version cut any scenes. The DVD now being sold at this site and others is the complete, uncut movie and can be viewed without interruption. I apologize for the confusion caused by my earlier explanation.

Or but it only if you think you want to try to learn Italian seeing dismembered motion pictures. The great Ettore Scola movie was butchered in "the culmaitation of effort made by many people over many years" by the obtuse people of the Brigham Young University. I think ... must warn[people] more and advice them when the product is not a movie but a cheap Berlitz-like foreign language course.

The movie is a great classic, but the restoration of this DVD is terrible. It is very blurry and noisy, the colors are off, and the compression is slipshod. The English translation is top-notch though. A film such as this should be done justice when released. The video transfer of the Eagle Pictures DVD ("Capolavori - Edizione Restaurata") is better by far. If you want this dvd for Italian language-learning purposes, then it is fine. But if you want to see Scola's masterpiece properly, get the Eagle Pictures dvd.

[[edit September 2011:]] This is a small issue, but I later noticed that the Eagle Pictures DVD transfer has one problem: they cropped the short black and white news-footage sequence at the beginning of the film, starting from the jump cut (bomb explodes -> jump cut to news footage). The crop deletes a bit from the top/bottom to fit the footage's 4:3 aspect ratio into the DVD's 16:9 (the Eagle pictures is widescreen and NOT letterboxed). This edition however, which is letterboxed (so technically it is 4:3), does not crop this news-footage section, and it fits the whole 4:3. So this is one tiny "advantage" of this release over the otherwise superior Eagle Pictures dvd. What I would suggest, since the great subtitles of this edition are freely available online, get the Eagle Pictures DVD, and watch it with this edition's English subtitles (yes this is possible).

This is a great movie, which I first saw at the Museum of Modern Art on the evening they held in honor of Nino Manfredi. I wasn't aware of anything by director Ettore Scola out on DVD, so I was surprised when I saw this movie was available at Amazon. According to the reviews I read here, it was supposed to have a so so picture quality and was also made for the purposes of learning Italian, but no one mentioned that the disc automatically went to the chapter menu after every scene. It is definitely annoying for anyone with intentions of enjoying the movie rather than learning Italian. Even if you bought this DVD to learn Italian, at one point you would like to watch the movie as a whole, I think, and the people at Brigham Young University, who produced this DVD, should have taken that into consideration and given the viewer this option as well. (I played this DVD on two different players, and tried to change some player settings too, but couldn't find a way to watch the movie without jumping to the menu every few minutes. If I am wrong and there is a way to watch the movie without interruption, please let me and all others interested know). I still don't regret that I have bought the DVD since there is no other way of owning this movie now, and it is worth putting into your collection even with the flaws of it. One thing I wish to say to whichever company owns the rights to this movie is to put this out as a regular DVD release. Looking at the director, the cast and the cameos by Fellini, De Sica, and Mastroianni, I know fans of foreign films will jump on it even if they haven't seen it and don't know what great a movie this is. Speaking of Ettore Scola and releasing great movies on DVD, his movie 'A Special Day' with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni is one of the greatest movies of all time according to many interested in film. I don't think it has been out on video since early 80s, and it is very difficult to find it anywhere to watch. So Criterion, Image, Kino, Fox Lorber, New Yorker or anyone from any other video company, who is reading this; somebody please pick this masterpiece up and release it on DVD. I am 24 and I hope I can wait for some time, but I am sure there are also older people who are dying to get this, please let them get it before they do!

This film is one of the most sincere and haunting films you'll watch in you life. A careful sight into the affective world of three friends, his adventures and livings, until they find casually twenty years later; and the changes produced by the life in what they are, and their useless efforts for trying 'to freeze' the time. Beautifully filmed with surrealistic rapture images.
Manfredi and Gassman were two of the major actors in the italian cinema in any age Watch also for that legendary seductive beauty who was Stephania Sandrelli.
The dazzling script and delightful sequences are feed by a clever sense of humor. It's about the nosthalgical reflections of those years that they'll never come.
A cult movie. One of my favorites italian films.

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.

This is one of the best movies ever. I've just bought from Amazon.com a new edition of CD, copywrited 2001. All the problems reported from previous edition (1999) are gone. It is a great movie with Italian and English subtitles.

This DVD is produced not as a movie but as an Italian lesson (using the movie)by a well-known Utah University . In this respect, it is a great lesson of Italian, but it is not the greatest visual quality. This did not bother me because I happen to seek the Italian lesson. However, I usually like my movies crisp and clean, and this DVD version does not qualify for such specialty. I though the potential buyer should be told! Otherwise, I love the movie...!