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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the critically acclaimed Italian box office smash There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani). It will release in select theaters beginning January 17.
From multi-hyphenate Paola Cortellesi, the women’s rights drama released in October 2023 in its home market, going on to become the most watched film of the year there, outperforming both Hollywood blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer. With a box office north of $36M, it is Italy’s fifth highest grossing film of all time, the third best local performance in the last decade and the most successful Italian film directed by a woman. It’s also Cortellesi’s feature helming debut.
Set in post-war 1940s Rome, There’s Still Tomorrow tells the story of Delia (Cortellesi), a working-class wife and mother trapped in a toxic marriage. American GI’s still patrol the streets, but change is in the air. Yet everything remains the same for Delia whose romantic fantasies have given way to an embrace of her roles as dutiful wife and loving mother despite the sneering condescension and outright physical abuse at the hands of her strutting petty tyrant husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea).
His misogyny is only exceeded by his bedridden father whose care falls to Delia in between her myriad other chores and odd jobs. Delia sees the engagement of her daughter Marcella (Romana Maggiora Vergano) to her middle-class boyfriend as the girl’s big opportunity to avoid her same fate. But everything changes when a mysterious letter arrives and fires up Delia’s courage to turn the tables and start striving for a better life – and not just for herself.
Cortellesi, who also co-wrote the film, shot on the streets of Testaccio and at Cinecitta. There’s Still Tomorrow premiered as the opener of the 2023 Rome Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize and Audience Award, followed by six David di Donatello Awards. Its international prizes include the Dragon Award for Best International Film at the Göteborg Film Festival 2024, the top jury prize at the Sydney Film Festival 2024, the Audience Award at the Norwegian International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the eighth edition of the Pingyao International Film Festival.
Comments Greenwich co-president Edward Arentz, “Cortellesi has created a meticulously detailed patriarchal nightmare world women once had little recourse from and manages to find mordant comedy, heartbreaking drama and fragile optimism. We’re excited to bring this terrifically accomplished and emotionally engaging filmmaking to North American audiences.”
Producers are Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside and Vision Distribution.
