Set in Italy just after the Second World War, "There's Still Tomorrow" follows Delia, a woman pushing back against a violent marriage inside a household — and a society — built to keep her in her place.
What is There's Still Tomorrow about?
Paola Cortellesi both directs and stars as Delia, a working-class wife and mother whose days are consumed by housework, a job to make ends meet, and a husband whose temper she has learned to manage rather than escape. The film moves through the small, grinding routines of postwar domestic life — the debts, the neighbors, the marriage her family is already arranging for her daughter — before Delia begins, quietly and then less quietly, to plot something for herself. Valerio Mastandrea plays her husband, and Romana Maggiora Vergano plays the daughter whose future becomes the story's second front. Emanuela Fanelli, Giorgio Colangeli, Vinicio Marchioni, Alessia Barela, and Francesco Centorame fill out a neighborhood of characters who each represent a different way postwar Italian society expected women to fold themselves smaller.
About the cast
Paola Cortellesi carries the film as both its lead and its director, with Valerio Mastandrea playing opposite her as the husband whose control over the household is the story's central pressure. Romana Maggiora Vergano plays the daughter, and Emanuela Fanelli, Giorgio Colangeli, Vinicio Marchioni, Alessia Barela, and Francesco Centorame round out a cast built to sketch an entire postwar street, not just one household.
Context & significance
The film is set in the years right after Italy's liberation, a period when the country was rebuilding politically as well as physically, and it uses that backdrop as lived texture rather than a history lesson — rationed goods, patched clothes, a marriage market still running on old rules. Cortellesi's choice to direct her own screenplay gives the film a specific, controlled tone: comic in its rhythms, serious in what it is actually about.
Watching There's Still Tomorrow on Ktime
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