Italy and eternal machismo

This report was originally published in #LaMarea104. You can get the magazine here or subscribe to it and support independent journalism. In the film Always We Will Stay Tomorrow (2023) that shook Italy by taking for the first time the macho violence to the celluloid, there is a scene in which a husband slaps his wife in slow motion. The film, by Italian director Paola Cortellesi, takes place in 1946, when Italian women were able to vote for the…