Stalking Eva (2015) Online
The story is about Eva, a Ukrainian girl who has come to Milan to work as a model. As soon as she arrives in Italy she attracts the attention of the male world. All of the men that she encounters seem to be solely interested in exploiting her beauty: and so we have Luke, the stalker, who never stops tormenting her with text messages and phone calls; Airoldi, the shady television producer, who offers her various jobs in exchange for her sexual favours, and lastly, Tom, a vile photographer, who has no scruples whatsoever. After being raped at a party by Tom and two of his colleagues, Eva is invited by Cindy, her flatmate, to a sort of Sabbath, attended solely by women, in a place outside Milan. From that moment on, the gateway to success in the fashion world opens before Eva and, at the same time, a tremendous vendetta begins against the violent male world.
Credited cast: | |||
Ksenia Kapinos | - | Eva | |
Philippa Bingham | - | Cindy | |
Douglas Dean | - | Orlando | |
Mehdi Mahdloo | - | Tom | |
Tim Daish | - | Luke | |
Leonardo Sbragia | - | Sandro | |
Alex Adinolfi | - | Max | |
Marcus J. Cotterell | - | Airoldi | |
Tatjana Nardone | - | Judy | |
Elettra Capuano | - | Mia | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Ugo Benini | - | Viviani | |
Marina Bifulco | - | Model 2 | |
Matteo Bonacci | - | Alex | |
Sara Cechet Woodcock | - | Glinda | |
Jocelyn Deschamps | - | Mantis Doc Voice |
Over the film, more than 70 esoteric messages can be found: both on a visual, musical and script level.
"Giuliano Kremmerz Street", address which Mia gives to the taxi driver as hers at the beginning of the film, doesn't actually exist. It's a tribute paid to a famous Italian alchemist.
Mia cuts a cake in her house: this cake is half-moon shaped, like those baked by witches to celebrate their rites.
On the blackboard in Mia's kitchen there's a writing that says "Eliphas Square": it's another famous esoterist.
When Eva tells Orlando "Do as thou wilt!", she is making reference to a famous quote belonging to Aleister Crowley. By contrast, at the end of the film, Eva will say to her French friend "Love and do what you want", citing one of Saint Augustine's most renowned expressions.
Ksenia Kapinos and Philippa Bingham are actually models in real life.
Originally, the film should have been set in Rome, and the protagonist should have been a wannabe actress.
The name "Glinda" -which was given to the nun who alerts Orlando to the evil sects- is a homage paid to the well-known Good Witch of Baum's children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
During the dialogue between the Glinda and Orlando, for a moment, the camera dwells on the notorious "Malleus Maleficarum", the first book written by the Holy Inquisition on witch-hunting.
While Eva and Cindy are going to the Sabbath by car, the radio plays Paganini's "Witches' dance", a prelude to what will happen afterwards.
The director has strongly denied several times any connection between the esoteric sect appearing in the film and Wicca.
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