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There Is No Evil (Sheytan vojud nadarad)

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Synopsis

The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.

Cast

  • Baran Rasoulof
  • Mahtab Servati
  • Masoud Tosifyan
  • Bardia Yadegari
  • Zhila Shahi
  • Mohammad Valizadegan
  • Ehsan Mirhosseini
  • Mohammad Seddighimehr
  • Pejvak Imani
  • Shaghayegh Shourian

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Metacritic

88
May 14, 2021

The pleasures of watching There Is No Evil—a title that grows more piercingly ironic as the film progresses—are considerable.

Metacritic review by Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire
RogerEbert.com
90
May 14, 2021

When juxtaposed against a history of Iranian cinema that has often relied on child-centric allegory and non-specific narrative to make its societal critiques, There Is No Evil practically blisters with the intensity of specifically living in Iran as it exists now, as a state once believed to carry out the most executions of any country outside China.

Metacritic review by Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
78
May 13, 2021

The Iranian production There is No Evil (Persian title: Satan Doesn’t Exist) may not revive the portmanteau film to its former glory (the comic 1963 Italian Oscar-winning trilogy Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow being a stellar example), but it’s a comparatively solid quartet of short films that critically examine the country’s dehumanizing system of capital punishment, putting a human face on the citizen-executioner asked to carry out the all-too-frequently enacted death penalty.

Metacritic review by Steve Davis
Steve Davis
Austin Chronicle