THERE’S STILL TOMORROW

With Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea

Italy’s biggest box office hit in years is a canny comedy/drama shot in black-and-white with a look that mimics the style of Italian Neorealism.  Director Cortellesi, a multitalented popular star, casts herself as Delia, a longsuffering working-class wife and mother in mid-1940s Rome.  This dark comedy riffs on the stereotypical image of a family under the thumb of a tyrannical father and irascible grandfather, with domestic violence staged for rueful laughs, but Delia just may have the last laugh.  One day she receives a mysterious letter that holds the earth-shaking promise of change.  Special Jury Award, Audience Award, 2024 Rome Film Festival.  In Italian with English subtitles.