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. “The song is made up of the words of the letter,” says Rohrwacher through a translator. 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. 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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