Synopsis
On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.
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Cast
- Jonas Strand GravliViljar Hanssen
- Anders Danielsen LieAnders Behring Breivik
- Jon ØigardenGeir Lippestad
- Seda WittLara Rashid
- Ola G. FurusethPrime Minister Stoltenberg
- Maria BockChristin Kristoffersen
- Isak Bakli AglenTorje Hanssen
- Thorbjørn HarrSveinn Are Hanssen
- Marit AndreassenPrime Minister Aide
- Øystein MartinsenPrime Minister Aide
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The Guardian
Refusing to make Breivik spectacular, the film pays tribute to process, how Norway gave him precisely what he was entitled to so as not to give him what he wanted – scale, martyrdom, glamour. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
It's both a pulse-pounding depiction of the deadly attacks that shook Norway in 2011 and a sober investigation of the aftermath, evolving into a gripping courtroom drama and a tremendously emotional personal account of one family's struggle to move on. - 100
Screen Daily
As with his United 93 and Captain Phillips, filmmaker Paul Greengrass has taken a horrifying true story and brought sober perspective to it — in the case of 22 July, suggesting that a community’s response to terror can be as critical to a democracy as the attacks themselves. - 80
The Telegraph
It is less a true-life thriller than a kind of justice procedural – and a sharp, scouring work of moral seriousness from Greengrass. - 75
IndieWire
Though full of anger and grief, the film is more than just a screed. Greengrass’ docu-real aesthetic doesn’t allow for grandiosity even when he gives in to more heavy-handed impulses. He’s on a soapbox at times, but his message is worth hearing. - 75
The Playlist
Crudely put: it is distancing to hear people cry for help or speak anguished, halting truths from their hearts in a second language, and for all the bruising effectiveness of the filmmaking at times, it’s a distraction which 22 July never quite overcomes. - 70
Variety
It’s intelligently stern, storm-gray filmmaking, as we’ve come to expect from Greengrass; if it feels a bit mechanical as well, perhaps this is a near-impossible story to film with both tact and soul. - 60
CineVue
The first forty minutes or so are – as you would expect – a harrowing recreation of the bombing and the crime.