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- 2018
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 23 m
- 2018
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 23 m
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.
Directed By: Paul Greengrass
Written By: Åsne Seierstad, Paul Greengrass
- 2018
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 23 m
- 2018
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 23 m
22 July
69
6.8
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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.
Directed By: Paul Greengrass
Written By: Åsne Seierstad, Paul Greengrass
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
69
63% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
30% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
69
63% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
30% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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.
Working closely with master editor William Goldenberg, Greengrass has given 22 July a relentless, remorseless quality, insisting on a matter-of-fact style that allows no escape from reality even while refusing to push anything too hard.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 55 User Ratings
6.8
71% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
22% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 55 User Ratings
6.8
71% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
22% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
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, 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.
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Greengrass employs a handheld camera effectively, as usual, to simulate confusion, panic and terror. He cuts away from the most horrific moments of slaughter.
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.
Just like the families of the victims in the film who feel nauseous at the prospect of making a celebrity out of Breivik and spreading his toxic ideology, I feel a little queasy at the chilling, captivating portrayal of him by Anders Danielsen Lie. I feel uneasy being “captivated” by any of this, period.
The first forty minutes or so are – as you would expect – a harrowing recreation of the bombing and the crime.
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.
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.
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"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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It is a docu-drama about the tragic event that shook up not only Norway but the whole world. Yet the way this movie shows the event and it's aftermath does not live up to the scale of the tragedy.
There were too many details that prevented me from believing what I was watching. Maybe I am too spoiled but cinematography was the only aspect of the movie that I liked. Directing, casting, script, performances: all *at best* were mediocre. I think what happened on Utøya island deserves a better movie. It is pretty much exploitation of the subject.
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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 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.
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Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination
