Synopsis
Le Pupille (2022) is Alice Rohrwacher's short film, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Thirty-seven minutes shot on warm, grainy film, set in an Italian Catholic orphanage during the war.
It's the run-up to Christmas. The nuns preach discipline and self-denial to a houseful of orphaned girls. Then a woman turns up at the gate with an enormous chocolate cake and an odd request: pray for the unfaithful man she loves. The cake becomes a test — obedience against the very human urge to just have a slice. Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi play the grown-ups, but the film belongs to the girls, who refuse to be quiet and well-behaved.
The short earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short, and it's easy to see why: in barely half an hour Rohrwacher folds a fairy tale into a sly little revolt against adult hypocrisy. Stream Le Pupille (2022) online on iFILM.
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