There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani) (ITA)

Sat 15 Feb

Directed by Paola Cortellesi
118 min
M

Perhaps our favourite film of the past year, the film that won the 2024 Sydney Film Festival and had Italians pouring into cinemas like it was 1946. Paola Cortellesi’s wonderful story of a woman’s hope for a better life is shot in evocative black and white, a device that immediately places audiences in the setting of post WWII Rome.

Delia (played by director Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), her ailing father-in-law, a late-teen daughter who is in love and longing to be married, and two rascalish young sons. Her life is one of caring for all and contributing to the meagre family coffers where she can. She is held accountable for anything that goes wrong in the household.

Her moments of happiness come from a best friend with whom she routinely shares moments of levity, and encounters with an old flame, with whom a shared chocolate bar can seem like a moment of extraordinary passion.

Then one day a mysterious letter arrives.

Presented By

Cast

Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni

Directed by

Paola Cortellesi

Release Date

21 Oct 2024

Genre

Italian period comedy, drama

Classification

M

Classification Advice

Mature themes, violence and coarse language

Country

Italy

Language

Italian with English subtitles

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