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A great challenge and dramatic resistance by a teenage girl struggling to survive amid the many killings and devastations in Norway. The girl is trying to find her younger sister during the July 2011 mass murder in a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya, in a story that is the most dramatic in the girl's life.
It's a grim, startling, and immersive experience, but without the historical rigour of Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday or the comforting heroics of United 93.
October 26, 2018
The Mail on Sunday (UK)
Emotionally more powerful than Paul Greengrass's wider-ranging July 22 but, arguably, even more pointless.
The characters in the film are fictionalised but based on the accounts of real survivors; fine to protect their identities, but dubious to deliberately twist the narrative to create additional sympathy.
There's no stronger argument against guns than the image of a child dead besides her phone - which rings with the calls of a mother that doesn't know her daughter can't answer anymore. [Full review in Portuguese]
Shot on hand-held camera, strong on urgency and terror, the film is a tour de force though it flags slightly in the middle, It has your heart pounding along with the breathless fugitives'.
"U - July 22" cuts through so much of the contemporary cant around gun violence, around white nationalism, around xenophobia, around the politicization of historical tragedy.