The tragicomedy “Tomorrow is Another Day” is about domestic violence in the 1940s. The film hits a nerve in society and makes its director an unexpected spokesperson for Italian women. It will soon also be in German cinemas.
You cringe when your husband swings his hand. But the slap doesn’t happen. The couple slides into each other, moving rhythmically to rock music – a scene between dance and fight. It takes away the force of violence and makes it look abstract, ridiculous and comical. The director Paola Cortellesi, who also plays the female lead, tells the everyday life of women in post-war Italy with great lightness and irony. It is a story of poverty and domestic violence, of solidarity among women and the courage for liberation.