Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the real-life drama of Cecchettin's killing played out, the movie “C’è ancora domani” riveted audiences across Italy. Cortellesi, who directed the movie, said her work swept up audiences “beyond the ordinary, precisely because, as I have been saying, it hit a raw nerve in the lives of everybody.” A noted Italian comic actress, Cortellesi also plays the lead role of Delia, an abused Roman wife hoping for a better future for her teenage daughter. In a letter to Corriere della Sera daily, Elena Cecchettin dismissed descriptions of her sister's alleged murderer as a “monster.” Killers are “not sick, they are the healthy sons of patriarchy," she wrote. On Wednesday, after final passage of a bill to protect women with such measures as increased use of electronic monitoring devices for men stalking or threatening them, lawmakers from the opposition 5-Star Movement pounded rhythmically on their desks “in a minute of noise.” Director Cortellesi appealed to the two most powerful women in Italian politics today — far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein, who heads the Democratic Party, Parliament's largest force on the left.