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Utøya: July 22

Utøya 22. juli

2018

Erik Poppe

Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Magnus Moen, Ada Eide ...

6.4

4,008

Thriller. Drama We meet Kaja (18 years-old) 12 minutes before the first shot is fired at the Utøya summer camp July 22nd 2011, which soon is to be the worst day in modern Norway's history. They know about Anders Breivik's bomb in Oslo, but is he here now?

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"'U – July 22' is designed to be as immersive as it is exhausting, and largely succeeds (...) Does 'U – July 22' finally leave its audience with anything? How could it, given the numbing senselessness of what it depicts?"	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Harrowing (...) Formally impressive (...) The ending the filmmakers have come up with feels too much like a cheat from the fiction playbook."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The gimmick pays off more often than not (...) 'U-July 22' helped close the gap between the unimaginable and its victims"	POS
United Kingdom	Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"A moving testimony to the simple human heroism that such events bring to the surface (...) Audiences must be prepared to have their hearts in their mouths for what seems an eternity"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A visceral, brutal, yet heartfelt and earnest movie (...) It is an absorbing and moving tribute (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"On the technical and also performance level, the film is gruellingly impressive (...) [Berntzen] never strikes a false note (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Alex Godfrey Empire	"The naturalism of the cast and their chemistry immediately imbues the film with humanity (...) Poppe wants us to feel (...) He succeeds — the film leaves you bereft (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Bénédicte Prot Cineuropa	"One comes out of the experience feeling embarrassed for the auteur behind the film, and mildly irritated in general."	NEG

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