There’s still tomorrow, and tomorrow there will be many more. In its second week in theaters the film by Paola Cortellesi still has the highest takings and exceeds seven million, in a box office that includes many Italians, Commander Of Edoardo De Angelis con Pierfrancesco Favino to 1 million and 700 thousand, I captain Of Matteo Garrone at 4 million, the phenomenon for kids I control you with 4.2 million, the debut of Claudio Bisio, The last time we were children to 1.3. The film, the directorial debut of the actress and screenwriter, is the most watched Italian film of the year and won the Golden Ticket.
A success blessed by authors and actors, colleagues happy, especially for Cortellesi. Remember Massimiliano Bruno: “We were kids and she was already talking about remaking the Honorable Angelina, after twenty years she has succeeded. Applause”. Second Marco Manetti we are returning to the cinema thanks to the films of Cortellesi and Garrone, “they speak to the hearts of the public and bring them back to the cinema”. Daniele Luchetti he underlines “well-thought-out, constructed films produced with large budgets arrive in theaters”. The happiest they are Emanuela Fanelli e Valerio Mastandreawhich in the project of Paola Cortellesi they believed immediately.
Paola Cortellesi, the (very special) backstage of her directorial debut, ‘There’s still tomorrow’
How did you get involved in this film? And what did you think the first time you read this story?
Fanelli: “We went to dinner with Paola, she told me about the film in a very, very in-depth way. Only at the end did she say to me: ‘I would like Marisa to be you’. It was a very great emotion both professionally and personally. And that brought more anxiety. Paola is an artist that I respect very much. She’s full of talent, but she was also fundamental and important to me as a pre-teen: she showed me a way in which this unconventional work could be done and so I didn’t want to disappoint an artist who is so important to me. person who is very important in my life. This caused me so much anxiety. When I read it I thought it was a really brave choice on her part, as a debut in the first film. It was an honor for me to participate, to be asked to take part in the role of Marisa.”
‘There is still tomorrow’ a journey into the neorealist past between poverty, toxic males and hopes by Alberto Crespi 26 October 2023
Mastandrea: “Instead he called me and asked me if I wanted to read the film. I read it and she asked me: do you think you can do this role? I replied: I don’t think so. But let’s talk about it. We talked about it, we worked on it. She wanted me to do it, but she was aware of the risks of character traits that I bring with me.”
‘There’s Still Tomorrow’, the film directed by and starring Paola Cortellesi – trailer
Were you afraid of bringing too much empathy to the character?
Mastandrea: “Exact. Also partly due to a real lack of physique du rôle, the aptitude I have in giving life to characters. And then the script lent itself to some huge laugh traps. I didn’t make this character at full speed but with the muzzle ready because we had to be very careful, always trying to calibrate everything. But I was also flattered by the fact that he wanted me alongside him in his work before him. It’s like you’re inviting your loved ones to see what you’re made of. We were not invited, we were part of what Paola wanted to bring to the public. And it was beautiful.”
Fanelli: “We did a lot of rehearsals before the film and I saw the work that Valerio did with Paola on removing any possibility of gags, bringing laughter. He is one of the actors who has the most humorous possibilities. He taught me a lot. For ego and possibility Valerio could go on roads that he knows well and on which he knows he can give his best, and instead he tries new things. It was a lesson.”
Paola Cortellesi, behind the camera our cinema is better than much by Alberto Crespi 18 October 2023
Mastandrea: “It’s a film where the balance was really subtle and Paola was certainly a bit reckless, strongly courageous and self-confident in bringing a film like this, which is a film with an immense, enormous, eternal theme. However, I would say that you did it by using cinema in the most useful way possible. What cinema allows you to make is certainly less strong than reality, which is always stronger than a film. But he tells you reality in a poetic and devastating way in his poetry, I think of the scenes of violence accompanied by those choreographies. It’s a unique thing. She tells you that in that family that beating routine was like putting on a record. There are many readings.”
Rome Film Festival, Paola Cortellesi protagonist of the first red carpet of the 2023 edition
The film is also a warm and due tribute to a generation of women who rebuilt Italy. What did it mean to you, what relationship did it have with your grandmothers?
Fanelli: “For Marisa I was inspired, especially in tune with my paternal grandmother, mother Silvana, Roman and young during the war she was a very similar woman. I was also moved by Paola’s choice to put the magnifying glass on a family, a common woman, worthy of the common term, because she cancels out any particularity. However, it was the women who really rebuilt what was the social fabric of our country, who did not go down in history individually because they performed heroic gestures, but all together they are history, so it is very exciting.
‘There’s still tomorrow’, the directorial debut of Paola Cortellesi, protagonist Mastandrea edited by the Spettacoli editorial team 21 September 2023
Mastandrea: “My great-grandmother was born in 1902, died in 2003 and lived through a whole century. She was the bearer of nursery rhymes, above all, which I was very fond of because I read in them a black and white life that I had never lived. Work, the right to work, the effort of reaching a job. And today I can say that in certain aspects nothing has changed. Unfortunately – without wanting to spoil – the only thing that has changed is that the ending of this film has enormous value and today it is almost worth nothing. This is the thing that moves me most when I see that ending, but it also makes me despair at the thought of how that gesture and that opportunity are considered a bit like that today. Everything passes through that stuff too.”
Paola Cortellesi: “Even though it is set in the past, my film looks to the future”
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