After the success in France, There’s still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi continues its run at the international box office and lands in the United Kingdom, where it is presented to the public with the title There’s Still Tomorrow.
For the occasion, one of the most important cinemas in London located in Leicester Square has displayed a poster which is a real homage to the work and which is making the rounds on the web. In fact, it doesn’t happen every day that all this visibility is reserved for an Italian film. «Bigger than Barbie? It reached number 1 at the Italian box office. And now it is available from us”reads the poster https://twitter.com/filmval_/status/1783978468188774547?t=eX6zlWLIDijz4PXoWYYxmw&s=19.
«I directed my first film when I was fifty – Cortellesi declared to the BBC. – Sharing theaters and the box office with a giant like Barbie, which deals with the same theme – the experience of women – was wonderful.”. And he added: «I wanted to make a contemporary film set in the past, to understand what has changed and what has remained the same. Maybe now, as women, we have more rights and protections, but The mentality has not changed in society that distorts love in possession”.
«I hope that the people who leave the cinema have the desire to practice freedom. Your own, and also that of others”said the director instead There’s still tomorrow at Rai, on the occasion of the film’s release in London.
In the next few days we will find out whether the English public will accept the invitation; certainly, in Italy the message was well received: with more 5.3 million viewers, There’s still tomorrow was the most watched film of 2023which made Paola Cortellesi the highest-grossing director ever.
The tragicomedy, as is known, tells the story of Delia, mother and wife of an ordinary family in the second half of the 40s, in Rome. The woman has resigned herself to the roles that society has given her and is completely dominated by her husband, the irascible and violent Ivano. But everything changes when the eldest daughter Marcella accepts a loveless marriage in order to free herself from that uncomfortable family. The event and the arrival of a mysterious letter will finally spur Delia to imagine a better future, not just for her.
There’s still tomorrow it is also available on Netflix.
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