Italian director Alice Rohrwacher's
'Le Pupille', a WWII drama of teen rebellion in a Catholic
boarding school, on Tuesday got an Oscar nomination.
The latest work by the 41-year-old Fiesole born director and
screenwriter is among the five nominees for the live action
short category.
Rohrwacher won the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
for The Wonder and best screenplay at Cannes in 2018 for Lazzaro
Felice.
Le Pupille (The Pupils) follows a group of rebellious young
girls at a Catholic boarding school in Italy during a time of
scarcity and war.
Rohrwacher has said the film is "about desires, pure and
selfish, about freedom and devotion, about the anarchy that is
capable of flowering in the minds of each one of them within the
confines of the strict boarding school".
She added that "although the obedient girls can't move, their
pupils can dance the unrestrained dance of freedom."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
