Diabolik is the perfect couple with Eva Kant

For the Manetti Bros it was “the closest thing to achieving a dream”, but also, let’s say, the most difficult test of their career: transposing a founding myth of Italian comics to the cinema, Diabolik. In cinemas from December 16 with a one-year delay due to a pandemic, the film is the second attempt at cinematic rewriting of the Giussani sisters’ work after Mario Bava’s 1968 pop experiment. settings to the shots in a film that is a devoted homage to the legend, formally perfect. The story is that of the register number 3, The arrest of Diabolik from 1963, which tells of the fateful meeting between Diabolik and Eva Kant, the capture of the thief and finally the great escape.

Eva Kant, played by the perfect Miriam Leone, and Luca Marinelli’s cold Diabolik, soon form a powerful couple, able to overcome the obstacle of incarceration and the risk of the guillotine, overcome the villain (Deputy Minister of Justice Caron, played by Alessandro Roia) and hit the bank. We are in a distant Italy called Clerville in fiction, where women are mostly like Elizabeth, Diabolik’s naive and submissive companion with the face of Serena Rossi, but also like Eva Kant, a femme fatale emancipated from the dark past , who cares about her independence and wants a prominent place in Diabolik’s adventures (“I’m not the wife,” she says) and prefers thrills to wealth. On his trail and on those of the king of terror is Inspector Ginko (Valerio Mastandrea), eternal pursuer, every time mocked by the criminal genius. The ending leaves room for the sequels, in which Marinelli will no longer be dressed in the onesie of the protagonist.