Italian director Alice Rohrwacher has made the 15-strong Oscar shortlist in the live-action short category for her tale of young girls in a rigid religious college at Christmas, Le Pupille (The Pupils).
"It's a great happiness to know that Le Pupille have been loved
and find themselves in this selection," the 40-year-old
Florentine director and screenwriter told ANSA.
Le Pupille, available on Disney+, produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina
(Tempesta), Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and Gabriela Rodriguez
(Esperanto Filmoj), 37 minutes in all, is a little tale of
desire, freedom and devotion but also an anarchic spirit that
can develop in the minds of young novitiates over a festive
period.
"I'm happy," Rohrwacher goes on, "for all of us who worked with
care, passion and also a light touch on this film, for the
beautiful family of collaborators who accompany me, I'm happy
for the girls, for Alfonso Cuaron who desired to see this film
first, and I'm grateful to (writer and cinema critic) Goffredo
Fofi who pushed me to read this story, and still more to (late
novelist) Elsa Morante who imagined how to recount the desires,
scandals and need for rebellion via the fairy tale of a zuppa
inglese".
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