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‘Every Italian recognised a piece of their own family’: film on abuse of women touches a nerve

First-time director Paola Cortellesi tells of her surprise at success of the uncompromising There’s Still Tomorrow

The gesture set the tone for the 1940s-set black-and-white film’s depiction of poverty, domestic violence, women’s rights and a mother’s determination to break the cycle of abuse in post-second world war Rome. That hope certainly came to pass: C’èancora domani, which picked up three awards at the Rome film festival including the special jury prize, has been watched by more than 5.3 million people in Italian cinemas. Cortellesi said she wanted to make the film, partly inspired by her grandmothers’ stories of that period, in the past in order to raise issues that persist in Italian society amid a lingering toxic machismo.

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