22 July

Name: 22 July
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 10, 2018
Duration: 143 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Anneke von der Lippe, Caroline Glomnes, Charlotte Bottolfsen Iversen, Hang Tran

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Netflix | Release Date: October 10, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Anneke von der Lippe, Caroline Glomnes, Charlotte Bottolfsen Iversen, Hang Tran, Isak Bakli Aglen, Joakim Skarli, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Kenan Ibrahimefendic, Lars Arentz-Hansen, Maria Bock, Marit Andreassen, Marita Fjeldheim Wierdal, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Thorbjørn Harr, Tommy Hyving, Trim Balaj, Øystein Martinsen

Summary: In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. A three-part story. About the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

Director: Paul Greengrass

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 143 min

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Tim Grierson

Sep 5, 2018

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. Read full review

Randall Colburn

Oct 9, 2018

22 July is a thoughtful, gutting achievement that you’ll likely never want to watch again. Greengrass’ approach here is graceful and deeply resonant, but it’s undoubtedly draining, especially considering you still have roughly two hours to go after the shootings that ignite the narrative Read full review

Mark Kennedy

Oct 10, 2018

With tenderness and toughness, Greengrass has made a great film about a terrible act. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Sep 5, 2018

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. Read full review

Will Leitch

Oct 10, 2018

As moving as the families’ recoveries can be, and as earnest as Greengrass is at trying to honor their stories, there is an undeniable waft of the familiar in his dramatization of their difficulties. Greengrass hasn’t found a new spin on this sort of material. You admire the resilience, but I’m not sure Greengrass makes you feel it. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Oct 8, 2018

22 July takes a helicopter view of a terrifying, unthinkable tragedy, perhaps flying too high to capture all the nuance, complexities and emotion. Still it has great stretches and a terrific performance by Anders Danielsen Lie. Read full review

Derek Smith

Oct 7, 2018

That a drop from John Williams’s Jaws score wouldn’t be out of place on this film’s soundtrack goes to show how tactlessly Paul Greengrass milks tragedy for titillation. Read full review

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Vancomycin

Oct 12, 2018

The Titan of terror docu-drama returns to take on the numbingly awful events of July 22nd, 2011 when a single man went hunting for teenagers. Maintaining a perfectly straight, albeit razor-thin edge between up close and personal and enough distance to stomach the violence, GreengrassThe Titan of terror docu-drama returns to take on the numbingly awful events of July 22nd, 2011 when a single man went hunting for teenagers. Maintaining a perfectly straight, albeit razor-thin edge between up close and personal and enough distance to stomach the violence, Greengrass delivers a flawless home run with this portrayal which focuses on the humanity of the inhumane violence without pandering to victimhood or glorifying the disgusting villain. Worth your time if you think you can handle it.… Expand

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CosiMOLOGO

Oct 22, 2018

El director Paul Greengrass ya había demostrado su capacidad para poder contar sucesos reales con "Vuelo 93" y "Capitán Philips", pero con esta película se supera. Narra el violento atentado que cobró 77 vidas el 2011 en Noruega y las consecuencias directas en una familia y en el país.El director Paul Greengrass ya había demostrado su capacidad para poder contar sucesos reales con "Vuelo 93" y "Capitán Philips", pero con esta película se supera. Narra el violento atentado que cobró 77 vidas el 2011 en Noruega y las consecuencias directas en una familia y en el país. Comienza mostrando una secuencias muy violenta del atentado; con esta se marca el tono de la película.

Los colores en la película varían entre grises, las actuaciones son expresivas y todo se mezcla con el ambiente tenso y sombrío que se vivió luego del atentado. No peca de sensacionalista y se mantiene seria, mostrando las consecuencias directas del atentado sobre un joven y su familia, la frustración que va creciendo en el y todas las consecuencias de esta. Además, también seguimos la historia de un abogado que se ve obligado a defender a el responsable del atentado. El conflicto moral que se plantea, los problemas que esto le acarrea, se ve representado de una manera realista y directa. Un magnifico docu-drama con una fuerza abrasiva.… Expand

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harvdog03

Oct 30, 2018

Found this movie searching through netflix the other day and it was really good. The events that take place were horrible and the aftermath for survivors was defiantly not an easy road but a brave one that everyone can stand behind.

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eagleeyeviking

Nov 16, 2018

"22 July" is a harrowing and absorbing retelling of the terror attacks that took place in Norway, and the psychological and political impact it had on the victims and the country respectively.

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jeremyp

Oct 12, 2018

A well laid out movie about the terrorist attack by a malignant narcissist. The movie focuses more on the aftermath, which is just as well, as the mass execution of children doesn't bear watching for long. Breivik as a character doesn't bear lingering on, craziness rarely does, and it's hardA well laid out movie about the terrorist attack by a malignant narcissist. The movie focuses more on the aftermath, which is just as well, as the mass execution of children doesn't bear watching for long. Breivik as a character doesn't bear lingering on, craziness rarely does, and it's hard to understand a Justice system that allows a sociopath a forum, then tucks him away in a comfy cubbyhole, hopefully for life. I guess we'll leave it to others to give us a better objective view of the tragedy.… Expand

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Tyranian

May 7, 2020

Fairly well-made, well-acted and engrossing retelling of a massacre and its aftermath.

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abm0

Dec 9, 2018

I thought I wanted to watch this after the movie "Utoya" popped up in the cinemas and reminded me of the subject, but after noticing that "22 July" shows the perpetrator in full view, played by an actor who looks like him, I realized this is just the kind of sensationalist material that allI thought I wanted to watch this after the movie "Utoya" popped up in the cinemas and reminded me of the subject, but after noticing that "22 July" shows the perpetrator in full view, played by an actor who looks like him, I realized this is just the kind of sensationalist material that all sociologists say should be avoided after a public murder or mass murder: any air time given to the murderer, their appearance, their message, their methods, all of that only helps them make their act known to people and stimulates copycats to try to do the same or be even more efficient the next time. And of course it's not surprising this version was made in collaboration with the U.S. - Civilian Mass Murder Nation - where they don't care about what it takes to prevent more mass murders from happening. They just have to show guns, explosions and all of their perpetrators in full glory, always.

I recommend you skip this one and rate it a 0 everywhere you find it. This kind of presentation of a mass murderer should not exist.… Expand

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