“I wanted to create a film that was out of time,” Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher says about her Oscar-nominated live action short, Disney+ Original Films’ Le Pupille. “That was classic, but also hand-made.” Rohrwacher and the film’s producer, Oscar winner Alfonso Curarón, joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event to discuss their 37-minute film.
Indeed, there’s a touching throwback quality to the short, which is set at an all-girls Catholic orphanage during wartime 1940s.
The nuns led by Madre Superiora Fiorabla (played by the director’s sister and longtime collaborator Alba Rohrwacher) emphasizes guilt and temptation.
So, it’s a dilemma when the school is gifted a zuppe inglese cake for the girls, so much so that the nuns talk them out of indulging in it.
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