There's Still Tomorrow

AroView: An audacious, bittersweet comedy-drama that swept the Italian Oscars and broke domestic box-office records.

Directed, co-written and starring Paola Cortellesi, it’s a tale of domestic hardship (and violence) in post-WWII Italy, filmed in black-and-white as a homage to Italian neo-realism but updated with fantasy sequences, anachronistic music, and sometimes uncomfortable satire. It’s a bold piece of feminist cinema that is both gentle and fierce, with a knockout emotional finale that will linger far longer in the memory that any of its flaws.

“This is a raucous and gritty slice of modern-day Italian neorealism. It is a film with a lot on its mind, but writer and director Paola Cortellesi has a deft way with a scene and a line, and the film remains buoyant from the first frame to the last.” ~Graeme Tuckett, Stuff

“The director is skilled at episodic sketch comedy and she finds a real balance between dire circumstances and ironic dark humor.” ~Lisa Nesselson, France24