Scampolo

In her autobiography ,"ich ,Romy" ,the actress wrote that ,unlike many of her fifties movies, she had good memories of this film, which allowed her to get rid of her costume melodramas (for a while).

Today ,"Scampolo" retains a certain freshness;it looks like a travel brochure, it's full of finer feelings, but the film is pleasant,and the cinematography is luminous.

And Romy is gorgeous , one has only eyes for her ;leaving her empress Sissi far behind, she plays an orphan (Scampolo means :left-overs ) who 's got no more family and earns his life by guiding tourists through the beautiful Ischia island ,an occasionally helping the laundress to deliver her clothes .With her white blouse and her red dress, she looks "Italian" (the whole cast is German ) and her guide act challenges arithmetic but wins the tourists over.She displays plenty of go , defending the hungry young brats who stole a melon or telling the mayor his home truths ; an outspoken ingenue who falls for an architect with no lira to his name but with new concepts in town planning .The love affair is conventional but the burnt adress is a good trick.

Romy Schneider and Ischia and summer and tourits and romance.

And a nice easy story .

Enough for seduce this film having as basic virtue the intense taste of vacantion.

It is one of films offering the good feel about an idillic time , innocence and simplicity as fair, seductive and useful virtue to define sorts of nostalgia.

The precise manner to offer a great portrait of orphan Scampolo by Romy Schneider is the axis of this seductive trip across friendship, love, generosity, ingenuity and tourictic tours little eccentric.

In short, just charming to delightful and seductive trip in a time lost but easy working as a sort of presumed refuge.

That was the second movie from Romy Schneider after the third "Sissi" movie. It played in a beautiful area in Italy with a romantic mood. Romy had a "youth virgin" role as the girl(called)Scampolo. Scampolo is a girl who don't know how to speak/react when a man is interested in her or in love with her. So she asks her older girlfriend who tells her bad and typical stereotypes about men. That makes she cautiously and distrustfully and so it takes a time until she began to show feelings to her lover Roberto Costa.For today movies it had too much kitsch but I think something like that is absent in today's films. This movie is the first I've seen from Romy Schneider(except Sissi) and I love her because she was very beautiful and she is a legend in Germany and for me!