TOlice Rohrwacher meets the audience of Cannes 75 after having enchanted him in recent years with his own The wonders And Happy Lazarus. The occasion is the presentation of his short The Pupils with Alba Rohrwacher And Valeria Bruni Tedeschiat the festival also with Marcel! the work before Jasmine Trinca! and with Les Amandier in competition.
The short, branded Disneyco-produced by the Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón (Rome) in collaboration with Esperanto Filmoj e Carlo Cresto-Dina for stormfocuses on Christmas holidays and on a group of little orphans left alone with four nuns during the war. It all started with the image of a pink cake and so many pupils who observed her enchanted and from a letter that Elsa Morante sent to his friend Goffredo Fofi to wish him a Merry Christmas.
The pupilsa film about freedom
“A film about pure desireson freedom and devotion, on the anarchy that inside the rigid college can flourish in everyone’s mind – said the director – Obedient little girls can’t move, but their pupils can dance the wild dance of freedom“.
“I love the pupilsit has always thrilled me to think that we all have little girls inside our eyes rebellious girls that can open, close, grasp things, dance and even when the body cannot move, be free “, explains Rohrwacher to the Cannes audience.
A scene from “The pupils”. (Photo by Simona Pampallona)
Alice Rohrwacher, Bertolucci and Godard
“The movie that completely stunned me when I was little is Until the last breath by Jean-Luc Godard because I saw him at a time when I had not yet understood that cinema extended beyond the story – he explains – Then I remember Twentieth century by Bernardo Bertolucci, our father often looked at him at home. There I realized that the great epic also existsnot just the narration ».
Alice Rohrwacher. (Photo by Tiziana Poli)
Cinema is politics
«Cinema is politics, especially in the staging – the director is convinced – like the poetry. I believe that where the cinema helps you to think for yourself, it is a place of awakening. Cinema has a very important political power especially in an era in which we are frustrated by images ».
“At the cinema we have the opportunity to enter the gaze of another – he continues – for this reason I feel a great responsibility to make a film. The seventh art is an amazing mirrora school of life that changes the way we look at the world ».
The next movie? On archeology
After the sharecropping told in Happy Lazarus Alice Rohrwacher he throws himself, for the next film, on another difficult theme, archeology. “Looking back for us human beings is a way to look forward, towards the future – says the director – This film I’m working on also carries the same concept with it: take a step forward looking behind us“. Alice is halfway through filming and we can’t wait to see it. Maybe at the next Cannes Film Festival.
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