Mildura Film Society

There’s Still Tomorrow
RATING:M Mature themes, violence and coarse language
RUNTIME: 118mins
DIRECTOR: Paola Cortellesi
ACTORS: Valerio Mastandrea, Paola Cortellesi, Vinicio Marchioni

The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There’s Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi in her directorial debut.

Delia (Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s – a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended – with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), their three children, and father-in-law.

She rises above the daily challenges of family life; has a best friend with whom to share moments of levity, and dreams for her daughter Marcella to one day have a better life. Delia accepts her fate – the good with the bad – until one day a mysterious letter arrives.

Shot in resplendent black and white, in the style of post-World War II Italian neorealist filmmakers, There’s Still Tomorrow is a critically acclaimed, bittersweet and empowering tale tinged with a comedic irony.
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Lies We Tell
RATING:MA Strong suicide scenes and sexual violence
RUNTIME: 88mins
DIRECTOR: Lisa Mulcahy
ACTORS: David Wilmot, Chris Walley, Mark Doherty, Holly Sturton, Agnes O’Casey, Grainne Keenan, Eleanor Methven, Elaine O’Dwyer, John Olohan, Kieran Roche

The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud (Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) – just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle…

In a bewildering turn of events, Uncle Silas (David Wilmot, The Guard) is revealed as Maud’s guardian in her father’s will. A pariah of ‘society’, he is infamous for being a callous and uncaring man.

Silas is furious at being denied his ‘rightful’ inheritance, and in a world designed to constrain women, deploys society’s most underhand weapons to bend Maud to his will.

As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence.

Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes O’Casey.
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Crossing
RATING:M Mature themes, coarse language, drug use, nudity and sex scenes.
RUNTIME: 106mins
DIRECTOR: Levan Akin
ACTORS: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli
Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
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