“The cake is a metaphor because those in power want to keep the resources all for themselves - they want to have the cake” in all its excess, rather than sharing it with those struggling to survive in wartime Italy. graphs and films of surveillance are sub - ject to discovery and, further, that such evidence is not protected by the attorney-client or work-product privilege. But she also has, beneath the top layers of this Christmas story she was asked to make by Oscar-winning auteur Alfonso Cuarón, her own sub rosa meanings. The filmmaker’s sense of humor shows up in inexplicable edits, a clever dog and other bits of liveliness that make “Le Pupille” a light, fun watch. Rohrwacher captures moments of absurd beauty, such as the girls in the nativity scene hovering without explanation. “I wanted to finish with the same words Elsa used.

He ran a finger along one, his lip curling in disgust at the film of. “The song is made up of the words of the letter,” says Rohrwacher through a translator. He pulled the trigger, letting off a short burst of gunfire and stitching a line.

A song sung by the girls says as much: “The moral? Don’t know. Fofi gave Rohrwacher the letter and she saw a film in it - though its events don’t teach some grand lesson. The letter’s writer, the novelist Elsa Morante the recipient, Goffredo Fofi, a noted journalist and critic. Genres: Drama Romance Bullied by his father to grow up, a teen fights between the love of his step-mother over his father’s life. There’s a Nativity scene and most important, an enormous cake. There’s a wealthy local woman pleading with the students to pray for her wayward man to return. In “Le Pupille,” director Alice Rohrwacher brings to playful life a letter about a World War II religious school in Italy.

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