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There's Still Tomorrow

Directed by Paolo Cortellesi
2023
Italy
118 minutes
Unclassified 15+
A box office phenomenon in its native Italy, where it outperformed Barbie and Oppenheimer, There’s Still Tomorrow is a moving, empowering melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome. Winner of Sydney Film Festival Official Competition.
Paola Cortellesi directs and stars in this crowd-winning gem as Delia, a wife and mother doing her best to get by in the scarred city following the war. Money is short and her husband, Ivano, is a violent brute who responds to her morning greeting by slapping her in the face. Delia juggles taking care of the home, three children, and a bedridden father-in-law, with scrambling for cash to contribute to the household – and to the pockets of the ever-demanding Ivano. Delia’s dream is for her daughter Marcella to marry well and lead a better, more comfortable life – the girl’s romance with a boy from a business-owning family bodes well. She finds respite from the violence in a flirtation with an old suitor, Nino (Vinicio Marchioni), and in an unlikely friendship with an American soldier she meets on the streets. A mysterious letter compels Delia to make a momentous, life-altering choice. “I wanted to make a contemporary movie set in the past, because I think that unfortunately many things have remained the same,” Cortellesi said. Shot with visual panache in sparkling black and white and with a wonderful soundtrack, Cortellesi has succeeded in making a vibrant, vital film that can lead to change.
Actor turned director Paola Cortellesi’s ambitious, big-hearted directorial debut feature echoes the Neo-realist classics of the period, showcasing a central character who might once have been played by Anna Magnani or Sophia Loren. An unashamed, old-fashioned melodrama develops into a more considered tale of small victories on the road to female empowerment
Allan Hunter, Screen International

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Fri 1 Nov
6:30pm
BCC Cinemas Toowoomba Strand
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Year
2023
Classification
Unclassified 15+
Country
Italy
Language
In Italian and English with English subtitles
Director
Paolo Cortellesi
Producer
Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: Limelight Distribution
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