Seventeen girls attending a boarding school run by nuns face a major dilemma in “Le Pupille.” Billed as a “tale of innocence, greed, and fantasy,” Alice Rohrwacher’s Disney+ short film sees the girls choosing between satiating their own desires and making a gesture that they’re told will please God.
When a cake made with 70 eggs makes its way to the school at Christmas, the nuns are stunned. The indulgence in “such hard times” is described as “madness” and “a waste” in a new trailer for the project. “I have a proposal for you,” a nun tells her pupils: “sacrificing your slice of cake and offering it as a pledge