What's on Tonight (Friday): Le pupille, Which is Italian for… "The pupille"

   Le pupilleAlfonso Cuaron’s name is all over the press for the new short film, Le pupille, but the writer and director is Alice Rohrwacher.  If you don’t know who she is, then we are in the same boat and should start a club.  She’s apparently a pretty good director, and the trailer for this looks absolutely adorable.  Beyond that, I don’t know much of anything about this, but Top Pick status I am assigning it just the same.TOP PICK⭐🎄 Le pupille (Disney+, 3:01 AM) ‘From writer and director, Alice Rohrwacher, and Alfonso Cuarón, “Le pupille” is a tale of innocence, greed and fantasy. This live action short is about desires, pure and selfish, about freedom and devotion, and about the anarchy that is capable of flowering in the minds of girls within the confines of a strict religious boarding school at Christmas.’Elsewhere…*Remember in 2019 when a bunch of tourists got trapped on an island in New Zealand when the volcano there started erupting?  Well, Netflix remembers, and they have a new documentary with a lot of phone cam footage of the event and interviews with the survivors, many of whom have visible burn scars.  It’s good to be reminded every now and…

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What’s on Tonight (Friday): Le pupille, Which is Italian for… “The pupille”

Updated: December 15, 2022 — 9:27 pm