Utøya – July 22, 2018.Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen.SYNOPSIS: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.Though it premieres at the LFF mere days after Paul Greengrass’ own dramatisation of the 2011 Norway […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Utøya – July 22
Utøya – July 22, 2018.Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, and Solveig Koløen Birkeland.SYNOPSIS:After detonating a bomb in a government building on 22 July 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik took his murderous attack to the heart of Norway: a summer camp on Utøya island. With the victims unable to escape, his murder spree […]
