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  • Not Rated
  • Feelgood Entertainment
  • 1 h 33 m
  • Not Rated
  • Feelgood Entertainment
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary On 22 July 2011 five hundred young people attending a summer camp on the island of Utøya were attacked by a heavily armed right-wing extremist. The murderous attack claimed the lives of 69 victims. It was a trauma that rocked Norway to the core, and still does to this day. Director Erik Poppe has dared to attempt to turn the events of th...

Directed By: Erik Poppe

Written By: Siv Rajendram Eliassen, Anna Bache-Wiig, Erik Poppe

  • Not Rated
  • Feelgood Entertainment
  • 1 h 33 m
  • Not Rated
  • Feelgood Entertainment
  • 1 h 33 m

Utoya: July 22

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary On 22 July 2011 five hundred young people attending a summer camp on the island of Utøya were attacked by a heavily armed right-wing extremist. The murderous attack claimed the lives of 69 victims. It was a trauma that rocked Norway to the core, and still does to this day. Director Erik Poppe has dared to attempt to turn the events of th...

Directed By: Erik Poppe

Written By: Siv Rajendram Eliassen, Anna Bache-Wiig, Erik Poppe

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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Poppe’s way into the story – spending every second with one young woman as she navigates the carnage – is a moving testimony to the simple heroism that such events bring to the surface. Ultimately, it’s an homage to the very generation of young Norwegians who Breivik wanted to obliterate.
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83
The film has the power to make our bodies catch up with our hearts — the power to help us safely experience the kind of terror we need to remember in a way that makes it impossible for us to forget.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
83
This grueling, pulsating, in-your-face film–almost to a fault–has ferocious power, but it’s going to divide like a fissure.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
80
It is an absorbing and moving tribute to the courage of the young victims of Utøya.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
70
U – July 22 is designed to be as immersive as it is exhausting, and largely succeeds.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
60
For this critic, the events in the home stretch finally feel too much like concessions to the necessities of the laws of fictional drama, with first an unexpected twist followed by a melodramatic one.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 12, 2020
This harrowing retelling of Norwegian rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 terrorist attack on the island of Utøya is less exploitative than Paul Greengrass’s brutal, Netflix-bound, English-language version, but the question remains: does a tragedy have to be turned into cinema for people to engage with it?
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Paradox, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Norsk Filminstitutt
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The day that changed us forever
Website https://www.facebook.com/utoya22iulie/
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Awards

Amanda Awards, Norway
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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