Paola Cortellesi “smashes” the David nominations with 19 nominations

The key points

• There’s still tomorrowby Paola Cortellesi totaled 19 nominations
• It is the first directorial debut with the highest number of nominations in the history of the award
• It is the highest-grossing film of the year 2023 and of the 2023-2024 season

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It was in the air, but confirmation was awaited. There’s still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi totaled 19 nominations for the David di Donatello, first directorial debut with the highest number of nominations in the history of the award. Already film of the year at the 2024 Nastri d’argento, and with two awards at the Rome Film Festival, including the special jury prize and a special mention as best first work, it was the most viewed and highest-grossing film of the year. year 2023 and the 2023-2024 season, the ninth highest-grossing film in Italy and the fifth among nationally produced films.

On April 1st the authoritative «Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung» wrote an expectant piece on this film, which is now arriving in Germany and which has been a hit in neighboring France. The newspaper takes inspiration from the work for a broader reflection on the state of patriarchy in Italy, connected to the story of Giulia Cecchettin.

The film

Starring Paola Cortellesi herself, the film surprises with its plot and direction, telling the story of a Roman mother, Delia, who in the post-war period weaves together an underground female resistance in support of the first universal suffrage. With a retro choice in black and white, De”s existence takes place between cleaning his basement in Testaccio, the umbrella factory, jabbing the sick in other people’s homes and cleaning the clothes of the gentlemen. We are in the mid-40s and everything seems normal in this race towards female debasement, including the morning slap that her husband Ivano, known as Iva’ (Valerio Mastandrea) gives her as the start of the day.

While the blows fly just to vent, De’ watches and dreams, but not what is easy to think, true love, rather a better future for her daughter and for all women. The screenplay, written by Cortellesi herself, Furio Andreotti and Giulia Calenda, always reserves surprising turns with a clever plot towards gender equality that takes its first steps with the referendum of 2 June 1946. Well done to Cortellesi in representing a story of feminism without absolutisms , which arrives at a time when the request for recognition of equal opportunities is becoming more and more pressing, even following, as the «Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung» well underlined, the murder of Giulia Cecchettin.

The other nomination

Following Cortellesi is there I Captain by Matteo Garrone with 15 nominations, already a Silver Lion in Venice, a noir fairy tale regarding the journey of a sixteen-year-old Senegalese boy, Seidou (Seydou Sarr), through the desert, the concentration camp prison in Libya, the route to Italy on a ship of which he himself becomes captain. Between Grimm and Collodi, but also a coming-of-age “novel”, terribly true with some surreal touches, it is a film of great visionary talent with which Garrone continues the fairytale vein already present in Pinocchio It is in the Tale of tales.Perhaps the Davids will be the ointment for the missed Oscar, won by The Area of ​​Interest by Jonathan Glazer.