- Title: Paul Greengrass premieres Breivik movie in Venice
- Date: 5th September 2018
- Summary: VENICE, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 5, 2018) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** CARS ARRIVING ON RED CARPET DIRECTOR PAUL GREENGRASS ARRIVING WITH WIFE JOANNA KAYE AUTHOR/SCREENWRITER ASNE SEIERSTAD POSING FOR PHOTOS ON RED CARPET ACTOR ANDERS DANIELSEN LIE AND OTHER CAST MEMBERS ARRIVING ON RED CARPET IN CAR SEIERSTAD AND ACTRESS MARIA BOCK POSING FOR PHOTOS ON RED CARPET VARIOUS OF SEIERSTAD POSING FOR PHOTOS VARIOUS OF BOCK POSING FOR PHOTOS ACTOR THORBJORN HARR POSING FOR PHOTOS PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF ACTOR ISAK BAKLI AGLEN POSING FOR PHOTOS ON RED CARPET CAST MEMBERS ON RED CARPET ACTOR JON OIGARDEN ON RED CARPET CAST MEMBERS ON RED CARPET CROWDS ALONG RED CARPET VARIOUS OF ACTOR OLA G. FURUSETH POSING FOR PHOTOS VARIOUS OF GREENGRASS AND KAYE POSING FOR PHOTOS ON RED CARPET VARIOUS OF GREENGRASS, SEIERSTAD AND CAST POSING FOR PHOTOS ON RED CARPET
- Embargoed: 19th September 2018 20:00
- Keywords: Paul Greengrass 22 July premiere Norway's deadliest terrorist attack Oslo Anders Behring Breivik Utoya mass shooting
- Location: VENICE, ITALY
- City: VENICE, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA0018WCPAA5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Director Paul Greengrass on Wednesday (September 5) premiered his Norway youth camp massacre movie, "22 July", at the Venice Film Festival.
Addressing reporters in Venice earlier in the day Greengrass said the film is not about Anders Behring Breivik's murder spree on that day in Norway in 2011 but rather a film about what happened afterwards.
But Greengrass, renowned for visceral action sequences in films such as hostage drama "Captain Phillips" and the Jason Bourne series, does not shy away from putting the terror explicitly on screen.
The movie opens with Breivik using food blenders and a cement mixer to make the explosives for a bomb he detonates in the government district of Oslo, killing eight people, a scene that is inter-cut with fresh-faced youngsters arriving at an island summer camp where he will massacre 69 of them.
White-nationalist Breivik, played by Anders Danielsen Lie, arrives on Utoeya disguised as a police officer sent to protect the children, before calmly stalking across the island shooting as many as he can.
In real life, the shooting spree lasted more than an hour. In "22 July" it is over in a few excruciating minutes.
Greengrass said survivors and the bereaved families had asked him not to "sanitise" the violence, but also to treat the tragedy with respect.
"22 July" is one of 21 films competing for the Golden Lion that will be awarded at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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