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There Is No Evil

Sheytan vojud nadarad

2020

Mohammad Rasoulof

Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shoorian, Kaveh Ahangar, Gholamhosein Taseiri ...

6.9

1,159

Drama Four stories on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty, asking to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.

	Media	Author	Review
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Though the message comes across loud and clear, the four tales suffer from being narratively uneven, making the film’s two-and-a-half-hour running time seem long indeed."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Rasoulof launches his most openly critical statement yet, a series of Kafkaesque moral parables about Iran’s death penalty and its perpetrators, made in open defiance of the restrictions the government put on him."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[Rasoulof] has made an absorbing ride defined by the paradoxes of its people"
		Lee Marshall Screendaily	"If only the whole film had maintained the promise of the first of its four named chapters (...) Nothing in the two hours that follow quite matches this tour de force."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Passionate plea (...) Maybe you don't go to Iranian cinema for nail-biting action and suspense. But that’s what you are given in this arresting film (...) There is great technique in the storytelling (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"Rasoulof makes a powerful point in his not-so-short film about killing"

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