Wednesday, March 5 | 6:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT
710 Sansome St, San Francisco
Thursday, March 6 | 6:30 PM
Oshman Family JCC Palo Alto
3921 Fabian Way, Room E-104, Palo Alto
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Director Paola Cortellesi’s first feature, winner of both the jury and audience awards for Best Film at the 2023 Rome Film Festival and the 2024 David for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay, There’s Still Tomorrow is a sincere, delicate film, at times humorous and at times tragic, but always innovative in style and in the attention it pays to the themes it addresses. The use of black and white helps the viewer immerse in the historical period in which the feature is set, yet it finds a sharp contrast in the modern and lively script. The musical choices, central to the construction of the most intense scenes, are often surprising, if not destabilizing. It is precisely this unpredictability that makes them particularly effective. But perhaps the main reason for the film’s success lies in the fact that There’s Still Tomorrow really has a lot to say: it engages in a significant discourse with the audience and leaves behind a series of urgent questions about our past, our present, and the kind of future we want to build—for our daughters, our sons, but also for ourselves.
In an entirely Italian production, but with an unquestionably international scope, Cortellesi reflects on the role that each of us can play in fighting violence, injustice, and what it means to care for one another.
THERE’S STILL TOMORROW (C’è ancora domani)
Dir: Paola Cortellesi
Italy, 2023, Drama, 118 min, Black & White
With Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea
In Italian with English subtitles
SYNOPSIS
In post-war Rome, a city torn between its newfound liberation and the miserable aftermath of the war, Delia (Paola Cortellesi) is seemingly resigned to her traditional role of wife and mother. Her husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) is the undisputed master of the family. Delia sees her daughter Marcella’s (Romana Maggiora Vergano) engagement to her middle-class boyfriend, Giulio (Francesco Centorame), as Marcella’s chance to avoid the same fate as her. Everything suddenly changes when a mysterious letter arrives and fires up Delia’s courage to overturn convention and start wishing for a better life – and not just for herself.