Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories: Natale, in for murder and enamored with the Mafia; Pietro, who can't seem to stay out of jail; Claudio, barely 14 and learning to stand up for himself; and Mery, a trans sex worker, who was arrested after a fight with a trick who didn't want to pay her, and is now stuck in a male prison.
- rape
- transvestite
- teacher
- prostitution
- juvenile delinquent
- transsexual
- reformatory
- neorealism
- cine quinqui
- gay theme
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michele Placido
Marco Terzi
Claudio Amendola
Pietro Giancona
Francesco Benigno
Natale Sperandeo
Alessandra Di Sanzo
Mario 'Mery' Libassi
- Tony Sperandeo — Turris
- Roberto Mariano — Antonio Patanè
- Maurizio Prollo — Claudio Catalano
- Filippo Genzardi — Matteo Mondello
- Giovanni Alamia — Marra
- Alfredo Li Bassi — Carmelo Vella
- Salvatore Termini — Giovanni 'King Kong' Trapani
- Gianluca Favilla — Rosaspina Prison Director
- Giuseppe Giarraffa — Carmelo's Brother
- Michela Cusano — Lia
- Matteo Mondello
- Directed
- Marco Risi
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 243 ratings
- Studio
- Numero Uno International
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
