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This dramatic story tells about an exciting world of murder and annihilation in Norway. The story begins with a teenage girl trying to find her younger sister who appears to have disappeared during the July 2011 mass murder in a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya. This teenage girl seems to live in a state of constant terror accompanied by great challenges.
CRITICS OF "Utøya: July 22 (Utøya 22. juli) [Sub: Eng]"
Irish Times
It's a grim, startling, and immersive experience, but without the historical rigour of Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday or the comforting heroics of United 93.
October 26, 2018
indieWire
Fortunately, the gimmick pays off more often than not.
The characters in the film are fictionalised but based on the accounts of real survivors; fine to protect their identities, but dubious to deliberately twist the narrative to create additional sympathy.
Shot on hand-held camera, strong on urgency and terror, the film is a tour de force though it flags slightly in the middle, It has your heart pounding along with the breathless fugitives'.
"U - July 22" cuts through so much of the contemporary cant around gun violence, around white nationalism, around xenophobia, around the politicization of historical tragedy.
There's no stronger argument against guns than the image of a child dead besides her phone - which rings with the calls of a mother that doesn't know her daughter can't answer anymore. [Full review in Portuguese]