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Rome in the mid 1940s; a city struggling to find a balance between the Liberation’s positive momentum and the misery of the war’s aftermath. Delia (director Paola Cortellesi) is the wife of Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) and mother of three, and has grown so accustomed to her husband's abuse that it barely even registers. She works multiple low-paying jobs dreaming of a better life for her children, although her daughter Marcella views her careworn mother with a mixture of pity and disgust. The potential for an advantageous marriage between Marcella and the son of a wealthy local family seems to offer an escape, but when Delia realises the suitor shows hints of her own husband's violent temperament she resolves to take action.
“This is storytelling with terrific confidence and panache.”
“A thoughtful, emotionally satisfying, immensely entertaining one-off”
“A picture of tremendous, sometimes whimsical charm and not a little mischief”
A black and white, neorealist-inspired tragicomic melodrama about misogyny and self-determination in post-second world war Rome, There’s Still Tomorrow has been a smash hit in Italy (it topped the box office in 2023). While the Italian success was in part due to the profile of director, star and national treasure Paola Cortellesi, the film’s emotional heft, bittersweet comedy and tone of hard-bitten romance requires no translation. Against a background of the rising women's suffrage moment in Italy, Cortellesi performs a delicate tightrope act balancing the heavy subject matter with moments of levity and grace.