The English language movies that Scamarcio’s supposed to be in are taking forever to be released; they’re saying that Emma Thompson’s Effie will come out in the UK in March 2013, but I don’t know what the heck has happened to The Blind Bastards Club. The Blind Bastards Club originally cast Scamarcio with Mickey Roarke, Rosario Dawson, and Lennie Kravitz in a movie about a group of blind people that do ridiculously dangerous things and take chances that blind people probably should not. About a year ago I noticed that they were no longer listing Roarke on the cast list, so that’s never a good sign. Lately I haven’t heard anything about the film at all, so who know if Scamarcio will get the chance to be a blind bastard or not on American screens.
Luckily his career in Italy is still going strong and his new Il Rosso e il Blu, with Margherita Buy and Roberto Herlitzka, released yesterday, looks like a winner. A movie about high school teachers always has the danger of being just another To Sir With Love rip-off, but this one’s got a pretty cool director,Giuseppe Piccioni, who gave us Luce Dei Miei Occhi, La Vita Che Vorrei, and Giulia Non Esce La Sera.
The reviews so far have been very positive and as one reviewer put it, “It’s about teachers who do their job, not in spite of the students being lost causes but because their students are lost causes.”
Take a look at the pictures.
I Love Italian Everything 