When it comes to the justice system of Iran,Mohammad Rasoulof has certainly been on the receiving end. The Iranian filmmaker, who won the Berlin Golden Bear last year for this portmanteau film musing on the death penalty, is under a filmmaking and travel ban and is still threatened with jail by his country's government.
There Is No Evil is the name of the first of the short films in this collection, which also includes She Said, 'You Can Do It', Birthday and Kiss Me. Each film considers the impact of the death penalty from a different angle, but there is also a slow build through the quartet as Rasoulof schools us in the ins and outs of a judicial system in which not only those who are directly sentenced to death can find themselves condemned as a result.
If you didn't know that the first segment concerned capital punishment,...
There Is No Evil is the name of the first of the short films in this collection, which also includes She Said, 'You Can Do It', Birthday and Kiss Me. Each film considers the impact of the death penalty from a different angle, but there is also a slow build through the quartet as Rasoulof schools us in the ins and outs of a judicial system in which not only those who are directly sentenced to death can find themselves condemned as a result.
If you didn't know that the first segment concerned capital punishment,...
- 3/6/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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