Another record for There's Still Tomorrow, Paola Cortellesi's film that went far beyond box office success. With the December 28 revenues determined by Cinetel, it reached a new record: it is the film that grossed the most in Italy throughout 2023, surpassing the global summer phenomenon Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig.
32 million 250,000 euros for the black and white story of the actress's directorial debut, 32 million 122,000 euros for the real fashion doll Margot Robbie and Birkenstock. Two female directors deserve special mention in a year dominated by women, in which Taylor Swift and Beyoncé also count among the record successes. In third place of the year in cinemas in Italy is Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, although with different distances: 27 million 990,000 euros.
“There's Still Tomorrow” (Wildside – Vision Distribution), released on October 26th after opening the Rome Film Festival to applause, is unstoppable, a case study: a directorial debut in black and white, a story from a time in the past, but which has reached powerfully and directly into the hearts of today's Italians.
With the bittersweet register of the best tradition of Italian comedy, without giving lessons (but actually doing them), it tells of women's emancipation in the post-war period, the first historic women's election on June 2, 1946 with the queue in front of the polling stations, the role in Families and the path of rights through the story of three ordinary women (the protagonist Cortellesi, her little daughter Romana Maggiora Vergano, her greengrocer friend Emanuela Fanelli).
In an interview with Walter Veltroni in Corriere della Sera, when asked if she expected such success, Cortellesi replied: “Obviously not. I hoped that an emotion would spread and perhaps grow over time. What I dreamed of was full rooms and great emotional involvement.” When we wrote it with Giulia Calenda and Furio Andreotti, we said to each other how perfect the balance between registers was in “Life is Beautiful” by Roberto Benigni, a film , which I loved very much precisely because of its ability to tell the world's most frightening tragedy, humanity through lightness. For me, being light does not mean taking away the weight of the pain. Another film that impressed me in this sense is Chaplin's “The Great Dictator”. The world descending into a terrible war was depicted with the ease of an inflatable ball that the then despot played with as if it were his own thing.”
“There's Still Tomorrow” is fifth in the top ten highest-grossing Italian films of all time, with “forever” having been there since 1995, the year of the Cinetel polls. A ranking of the top ten dominated by Checco Zalone in the first 4 places (at the top Quo I go with 65.3 million) and with Life is beautiful by Benigni in sixth place, followed by Benvenuti al Sud by Miniero, Ask me if I'm happy by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo (with Cortellesi in the cast), Natale sul Nilo by Neri Parenti and Il Ciclone by Pieraccioni. In addition, Cortellesi is also among the top 10 highest-grossing films in Italy, between Italian and international films of all time: in the ranking, led by James Cameron's “Avatar”, it is in 9th place, with 68 million 675 thousand euros first of all
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