There’s still tomorrow upsets Italian society
If there are two films that the whole world will remember in 2023, it’s them Oppenheimer AND Barbie. The two American feature films released in the same period were impressively successful, with over $952 million in revenue collected worldwide for Christopher Nolan’s film and more than $1.4 billion for Greta Gerwig’s. But in Italy another film did even better. This is’There’s still tomorrowa real end-of-year surprise.
In fact, with over 4.8 million entriesthe movie was most seen in Italy at the cinema in 2023. Faced with 4.3 million entries for Barbieand 3.7 millionOppenheimer. An unthinkable soundtrack for a film that, on paper, is far from being a blockbuster. Directed by Paola Cortellesi, There’s still tomorrow East an Italian film in black and white which takes place in Rome in 1946 after the war. A film to which, even in its promotional poster, it refers a cinema from another time – you might think you see it Hell in the city (1959) by Renato Castellani.
But then how did a film like this attract so many people to theaters, if not through the subject and word of mouth? There’s still tomorrow follows Delia, with whom he wakes up every morning a slap from her husband, before preparing breakfast for his children and going to work to bring back some money. It is therefore a question of domestic violence suffered by women”,of female emancipation in post-war macho Italy“, as written The world.
Violence against women still happens today
Naturally, tackling such a theme in the style of Italian neorealism in 2023,”it had nothing to reassure producers and distributors” the director confided to the newspaper. But according to her, there was “emergency“to tell this story. Because if the story is set in 1946, unfortunately it still resonates recent events.
In fact, whileThere’s still tomorrow was released in Italian cinemas on 26 October 2023, a few days later the country was shaken by the the murder of Giulia Cecchettin, 22 years old, by his ex-partner. Killed on November 11, her body was found in a ravine on November 18. She was about 106th femicide in Italy in 2023. Protests then took place across the country on 22 November. And November 25th 500,000 people participated in the day against violence against women. In the subject of the film, Art gives the floor to a student, Caterina Cesari, present at this meeting with a sign of the filmand which explains:
The film shows the older generation experiencing violence. But the news persists, even if in other forms. (…) At the event the director saw me, kissed me and thanked me. I told him no, we are the ones who have to thank you.
There’s still tomorrow it is the first film directed by the popular actress Paola Cortellesi, who plays the protagonist role. In France, while 94 feminicides were recorded in 2023, the feature film will be released on March 13, 2024.
Source: Cine Serie
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