There’s still tomorrow : an unexpected success
If in France the greatest success at the cinema came from abroad with Super Mario Bros. the film (7.3 million entries), ahead of Barbie (6 million spectators), in Italy, it was a local production that surprised everyone. Directed by Paola Cortellesi, There’s still tomorrow it didn’t seem destined for success in theaters. Both for the subject and for the form. In fact, the film presents the daily life of Delia, a mother of three children, who lives in Rome in the 1940s and suffers her husband’s violence, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea). Paola Cortellesi chose to film this story in black and white. Who could have predicted then that the feature film would become the biggest success of the year in Italy? almost 5 million entries ?
Nobody, not even the producers who”I didn’t open the champagne right away” seeing Paola Cortellesi’s project. This is what the director told us when she came to France to promote the film, insisting on the fact that “they were very brave, because success was not at all predictableYet, the Italian public responded.
It must be said that from the first moments, There’s still tomorrow hooks the viewer. Intrigued at first by the 4/3 format of the image (which then changes to 16/9), we witness Delia’s first slap of the day, as soon as you wake up. The feature film could then take the direction of a tiring, even miserable drama, but the director’s intention is different. Paola Cortellesi wishing favor ironyto represent “reality with all its nuances“.
“They must have been idiots.”
There is therefore a certain lightness There’s still tomorrow. Touching moments, others truly funny, combined with a staging that does not hide its modernity. Paola Cortellesi shows herself like this with originality in difficult situations. Like this sequence where Ivano beats his wife, which turns into a surprising dance. An approach that in no way minimizes the violence suffered by Delia. On the one hand because there is the right balance in the tone of the film. On the other hand, because the spectator is not fooled by the horror that Ivano represents.
I don’t think reality is always dark or comical. This is why in the film there are harsh moments of violence, but also touching moments, such as when the heroine secretly shares a cigarette with a friend. And ridiculous moments, on which we wanted to focus attention on the bad characters of this story, namely the husband and the father. We wanted there to be no possible identification with them. They must have been idiots and no one wanted to be like them. It was a difficult job, because you had to make them both ridiculous and unhappy.
An important film for all generations
There are still offers for tomorrow Violence against women in Italy in the 1940s. But his speech unfortunately remains current and universal. We remember that a few days after the release of the film in Italy, the country reacted to the murder of Giulia Cecchettin, 22 years old, killed by her ex-boyfriend on 11 November. This 106th femicide in Italy in 2023 had led to large demonstrations in Italy.
The film cleverly shows that violence isn’t just about Delia. She is also daughter Marcella (Romana Maggiora Vergano), which seems promised the same future. To counter this, Delia will have to take action. Not taking refuge in the arms of another man, as one might imagine at first (there is an ex-lover, and an American soldier). But she gives herself the means to decide about her own life. This is Paola Cortellesi’s other great success, which highlights the need to offer to women of all generations the possibility of being free in the final “revelation”.
So, beyond its strong theme and its approach, between auteur cinema and entertainment, it is perhaps because it is aimed at more generations thanThere’s still tomorrow attracted so much. At least this is what emerges from the testimony of Valerio Mastandrea:
The Saturday the movie came out I met a lady who said she was taking her daughter to see the movie. And that on Monday she would come back to pick up her mother. So in one week three generations went to see the film. From there we felt something was happening.
There’s still tomorrow it can be seen in French cinemas from 13 March 2024.
Source: Cine Serie
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