Nohe International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Rai 1 proposes There’s still tomorrow (at 9.30 pm), the debut work by Paola Cortellesi, which has won many awards and a proceeds of over 36 million euros. Record numbers who promoted it as the most watched film of 2023.
There couldn’t have been a better title to program on this day. The film is set in post-war Rome in 1946, within the domestic walls of a poor family: this is where they live Delia, a woman who works and looks after her three children, Ivano, her violent and chauvinistic husbandand the father-in-law more ogre than the son.
There’s still tomorrow: plot of the film by Paola Cortellesi. On Rai1
1946. In post-war Rome, between rubble and hope, Delia (Paola Cortellesi) lives trapped in an existence marked by domestic violence and submission. Married to Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), authoritarian and brutaland mother of three children, Delia takes care of the house, work and a father-in-law (Giorgio Colangeli) who treats her with the same contempt with which her husband treats her. Despite the wounds, visible and invisible, Delia knows no alternatives: the world has taught her to endure.
But something changes when a small gesture breaks into his life: a letter received secretly, capable of awakening the awareness that another future is possible. Encouraged by her friend Marisa (Emanuela Fanelli), an independent and cheerful woman, Delia begins to question her own value and the possibility of choosing for herself.
Through a gaze that blends drama with irony and a black and white aesthetic that recalls the cinema of the past, There’s still tomorrow delicately and forcefully tells the story of an ordinary woman, symbol of many others, who finds the courage to change his destiny. A film that speaks to the present, remembering that yesterday’s battles are not over yet.
November 25, International Day against Violence against Women
A perfect film for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which falls today 25 November. The United Nations General Assembly established it on 17 December 1999 through resolution 54/134. Violence against women represents one of the most widespread human rights violations and devastating that still persists today. The news cases that fill the pages of newspapers bear witness to this.
«The dynamic is always the same: debase a woman, scorch her and isolate her – declared Paola Cortellesi – it happened then and it happens today. The laws exist, but the reality is different.”
Emanuela Fanelli and Paola Cortellesi in “There’s Still Tomorrow”. (Photo Luisa Carcavale)
There’s still tomorrow the awards won and the success at the box office
There’s still tomorrowi by Paola Cortellesi grossed over 36 million euros. It was the most watched film of 2023 in Italy and the ninth highest grossing ever. He has won many awards: 6 David di Donatelloa Nastro d’argento as Film of the Year, the Dragon Award Best International Film at the Göteborg Film Festival, two Golden Tickets in two different years (2023 and 2024) and other awards.
It was distributed in 126 countries. In France with the title Il reste encore demain in the first weekend it exceeded 800 thousand euros at the box office. It recently received the Golden Rooster Award for Best Foreign Language Film in China.
This is the motivation of the jury, chaired by director Zhang Yimou: «The film deeply contemplates the scars of an era. Deconstructing domestic violence as a cyclical bodily metaphor, the work follows, with a singular gaze, the path that leads from individual female awakening to collective participationcarrying out a refined metamorphosis of the sensitivity of time in a poetic and suspended balance. And formulates a contemporary critique of family power structures”.