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Wed Apr 24, 2024, 08:47 PM Apr 24

There's Still Tomorrow: The film which beat Barbie at the box office in Italy

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68881292

There's Still Tomorrow: The film which beat Barbie at the box office in Italy

39 minutes ago
By Emma Jones, BBC News



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The domestic abuse experienced by the film's heroine, Delia, has resonated across Italy


Greta Gerwig's Barbie may be the most financially successful movie ever to be directed by a female filmmaker, and the highest-grossing film of 2023. But it was beaten at the box office in Italy by another film, also made by a woman and speaking directly about the female experience.

There's Still Tomorrow (C'è Ancora Domani), by 50-year-old actress, writer and singer Paola Cortellesi, is now being released across Europe, including the UK. It became a phenomenon in Italy last year, taking more money than both Barbie and Oppenheimer.

As of last month, it had made around £31.5m in cinemas, was the country's biggest film of 2023, and the most successful film ever directed by an Italian woman.

Cortellesi tells BBC News that she still can't quite believe its success.

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