You’ve probably heard about it. There is still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi it’s going very well (To date, the loot has reached 14 million). We laugh, we are moved, we feel anger and relief. Above all, there is applause on the screen, reports of roars and probably standing ovations come from the cinemas. However, at school, as if we were in the 1940s of the film, the teachers load the classes onto buses: managing the multiplex cinema (who knows if with the confiscation of smartphones so as not to interrupt the emotions).
In short, this film must be seen, even more than once (multiple viewings also come from the news). The critical voices (few) and the supporters (many) count for little), the wave of consensus is now a flow of word of mouth, happily underscoring the “for once.” For once there is an Italian film in the cinema that works, this is not vulgar, crass, trivial, actionless or pretentiousso with the big message.
Truth be told, “There’s Still Tomorrow” also has the message. In addition, there is already in the title that is reminiscent of Rossella O’Hara’s mantra. But in this participatory form, which mixes comedy, melodrama, musicals, slapstick, dark circles and ragged clothes, Paola Cortellesi ensures it arrives with grace and familiarity. Delay and misdirection between escape from love and duty, and half of the classic Italian cinema. Because if looking into the future is insanely scary, you might as well take advantage of it the basics of civilian cinema that knew how to entertainand injured.
To find new ways of telling stories, there is still tomorrow, strictly speaking. In the meantime, We thrive on nostalgia in black and whitea trend introduced by in 2011 The artistand more important than ever. The romantic comedy is dead Marvel is dead – if not in intensive carethe reservoir of stories is always new the humanism of the 20th century before its collapse (from the Berlin Wall, from privacy, from education, from ideologies, from the right in government).
Apart from the fact that this pre-postmodern humanism, in order for it to work, In short, to address the giants Visconti, Scola and Rossellini of the 1940s and 1950s (and made into a film in the late 1930s in the 1970s) you have to be good. Cortellesi is. One can accuse him of a certain schematicity and the lack of some cuts out of reverence, because it was the first work. But every fragment that describes Delia’s life – married to Ivano (Valerio Mastrandrea), who leads her, and with a daughter to marry and two boys to ignore – forms a sincere and original core.
There is still tomorrow: all the films mentioned by Paola Cortellesi
Bellissima by Luchino Visconti (1951)
The film with Anna Magnani Mother of the girl he dreams of (and does everything he can) to guarantee a future in the cinema, There is still tomorrow restore the basement house. While the children spied from the shutters, the walls were eaten away by the damp and the furniture was recovering. Like Maddalena Cecconi Delia is an improvised nurse (but not only) who does home injections.
However, unlike Maddalena, who spends all of her husband’s money, she handles money more carefully. Seventy years earlier, Delia is a species Ex girlfriend who strategically accumulates money, and that calms the viewer. However, they remain two very different characters, who appear to still be touching each other in a piece of clothingBlouse.
Delia’s with the polka dot fabric purchased at the haberdashery store In fact, it seems like an homage to one of the models worn by Magnani (which, however, featured a geometric pattern).
Anna Magnani and Tina Apicella in “Bellissima”. (Getty Images)
La Ciociara by Vittorio De Sica (1960)
The excerpt from the film Oscar for Best Actress for Sophia Loren It’s the old love that is anything but buried. But difficult to revive, definitely available, with support: Giovanni and Nino. Played by Raf Vallone and Vinicio Marchioni. If Giovanni is a good, taciturn grouch who is amazed by Cesira’s (Loren) beauty and yet offended that she married a rich old man; Nino is sweet and almost submissive.
Both offer help. Giovanni promises to check the grocery store while Cesira and her daughter seek refuge from the bombs in Ciociaria; He also manages to steal a moment of intimacy before Cesira and her daughter flee to Ciociaria. Nino is rejected by Delia, who looks at him with enchanted eyes in favor of Ivano (although the film does not explain why), and suggests that the woman go north with him. You will start a new life; Meanwhile there wasn’t even a kiss in front of the workshop.
Sophia Loren and Eleonora Brown in “La Ciociara”. (Getty Images)
A Special Day by Ettore Scola (1977)
It is the film most often cited as a source of inspiration There is still tomorrow. Yes, the scene with the clothes hanging on the terrace is exactly like in Scola’s film. Yes, Delia and Antonietta (Loren again) are housewives exhausted by a husband (and children). “You’re worthless and you’ve been alone in the house all day and this is dinner.” But aside from clothes and family, they have two different adventures.
Antonietta, wife of a fascist who accompanies her children to the big rally marking Hitler’s visit to Rome, is a simpleton who falls in love with her homosexual neighbor. Who enchants and embarrasses her with jokes and attention, no matter how lonely and desperate he is, and a minute before he committed suicide. Delia is corroding from the inside, he only has Marisa as a confidant (Emanuela Fanelli), who makes her laugh, encourages her and cheers her on.
She’s downcast like Antoinette, but in crucial moments she discovers her determination. For example, without speaking a word of English, she manages to ask an Allied soldier if he would kindly plant a bomb in her potential in-laws’ shop. More than a partisan squadron.
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in “A Special Day.” (Getty Images)
Paisà by Roberto Rossellini (1946)
Here the repechage concerns Naplesan episode of the film containing six and forming part of the story the second film of Anti-Fascist War Trilogy. One of the highlights of neorealist cinema. Yonv JosephItalian-born African-American actor and musician who plays the soldier Wilhelm in There’s Still Tomorrow is clearly modeled Points Johnson; in Paisà again in the role of the black soldier of the Allied troops: Joe.
Paola Cortellesi and Yonv Joseph on the set of There’s Still Tomorrow. (@vjoseph)
Your contacts change. William baptizes Delia “Hello, Devo-annà” (because he is always in a hurry), he gives her a bar of chocolate (a similar but choral scene in which sweets are thrown from tanks was also in La Ciociara) and then he gives her the great pleasure of explosives. Joe, half drunk, has his shoes stolen by Pasqualea street boy who listens to all his stories and then takes off his boots when he sees him sleeping.
After finding the boy in a group of homeless people, Joe turns around in despair and realizes that the boy has no family, who certainly died in a bombing.
Anna Magnani in The Honorable Angelina.
The Honorable Angelina by Luigi Zampa (1947)
Anna Magnani again. But with the film in which Nannarella is a citizen charismatic person who leads an illegal occupation of property and who therefore wants the whole neighborhood in parliament, Delia-Cortellesi has little to do.
Angelina isn’t desperately waiting in line for pasta like Delia and the other unfortunates, attacks the grocery store owner’s warehouse and empties it Who says they don’t have a supply? Mena and ends up in prison. And who knows what he would have done if he had met a soldier like William: undermine Montecitorio?
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