You are here:

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Name: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Released: 1963
Duration: 119 min

Representation Score

4.3/10

Fair

1963

Not Rated

Director

Vittorio De Sica

Runtime

119 minutes

Average Rating

No ratings yet

New Showbiz Analysis

Vittorio De Sica’s work here is a sophisticated exploration of gendered power dynamics. By centering female desire and intellect, the film challenges traditional hierarchies and presents women as active drivers of their own destinies. However, the film remains limited by the era's social boundaries. It lacks markers of multi-layered diversity regarding race and LGBTQ+ identity, maintaining a traditional framework for sexual dynamics and a homogeneous cast. Ultimately, the film's strength lies in its embrace of moral relativism. It challenges religious and social institutions by framing personal ability to act as essential to the human experience.

Watch this, not that →

Category Breakdown

Does Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film focuses solely on heterosexual relationships and does not include characters with diverse gender identities or narratives that challenge heterosexuality through queer perspectives.

How does Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow portray gender?

Good

Female characters play significant roles in driving the plot, portrayed as strategic and intelligent actors rather than passive subjects. They use their sexuality to navigate and influence social and economic situations.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow?

Limited

The cast is predominantly homogeneous, reflecting the Italian context of the early 1960s. While it does not showcase multi-layered racial diversity, it uses geographical and class differences to depict a varied social landscape.

How does Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow represent religion and culture?

Good

The film critiques the Catholic Church and bourgeois respectability as barriers to personal fulfillment. It explores the intersection of romance and industrial labor, highlighting the complexity of social and moral issues.

Does Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no prominent depictions of visible or invisible disabilities that serve as central narrative elements.

Present on Screen

Subverts mid-century femininity by granting female protagonists a significant role in driving the story and intellect.
Uses sexuality as a strategic tool for women to navigate patriarchal social structures.
Employs moral relativism to critique rigid religious and bourgeois institutions.

Limited or Absent

Lacks representation of non-straight and non-cisgender identities or queer perspectives.
Features a homogeneous cast with a lack of racial and ethnic diversity.
Does not include depictions of disability as central narrative elements.

Official Synopsis

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

How are these scores produced? →