Utøya: July 22 (Utøya 22. juli)

“(MU) Electrifying real time account of a terrorist attack on a summer youth camp island, just following in long takes (is it one or a few of them?) an extrem responsible Kaja, a vjaracter on the border of solidarity and stupidity...” read more

My favorite Scandinavian movies (38 movies items)

"Original Title: 'Utøya 22. juli' Country: Norway Directed by: Erik Poppe Plot: A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya. Note: In my opinion, the greatest success of this movie was to show not only that the guy shot more than 170 people but, above all, the impact on the 300 remaining survivors who will be psychologically traumatised maybe forever. Indeed, for mor"

2018 Films - Best to Worst (67 movies items)

" U - July 22 is an extremely difficult film to judge. Based on the horrific events that occurred on Utøya island in Norway, were one man shot and murdered 69 people, most of them youngsters (in addition to being responsible for a bomb attack in Oslo earlier that day). Norway is quite a safe place to live, so that something as gruesome as that happened here is confusing, shocking and something that I'll never truly be able to understand. It's therefore a difficult film to judge because the event"