The popular Catholic weekly news
magazine Famiglia Cristiana has named Italian comic and actress
Paola Cortellesi 'Italian of the year' for 2023 following the
success of her directorial debut C'e' Ancora Domani (There's
Still Tomorrow) on domestic violence in a post-war setting.
"The award is for the courage with which she has put herself on
the line in her directorial debut, both on an artistic level
(shooting in black and white) and in terms of civil commitment,"
reads the motivation published in the issue due to hit
newsstands on Thursday.
"Her C'è ancora domani is the most-watched film of the year with
over four million viewers, marking the rebirth of Italian cinema
after the dark period of the pandemic," it continues.
"It is a work that, in the great tradition of neo-realism,
through a story set 75 years ago, has been able to immerse us in
the present, in the reality of the many women who, like her
Delia, struggle to assert their rights in a society steeped in
machismo. And she has done so with the qualities that have
always characterised her career: commitment and irony," says
Famiglia Cristiana.
On Tuesday it emerged that C'è ancora domani had overtaken
Roberto Benigni's Oscar winning classic Life Is Beautiful in
fifth place in the all-time Italian box office standings for
home-grown films.
The black-and-white film, telling the domestic drama of an
abused housewife in post-war Rome and confronting issues of
patriarchy and women's empowerment in the year Italian women got
to vote for the first time, had already beaten this year's cult
phenom Barbie into second place for 2023.
The all-time standings are led by four films by comic Checco
Zalone.
C'e' Ancora Domani has now taken 31, 481,358 euros.
It stands tenth all-time for films from all over the world.
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