The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
Utoya – July 22 (15)
Directed by Erik Poppe
THIS is the second film in two weeks dealing with the 2011 Utoya massacre, but, unlike Paul Greengrass's version, this unfolds in real time, seemingly in one take, as it depicts the harrowing gunning down of 69 young people on the Norwegian island entirely from their perspective.
Although the characters are fictional the film is based on detailed accounts from many of the real survivors.
What this reconstruction captures is the horror, the panic, the confusion and the terror those youngsters underwent at the hands of far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, when he hunted them down at Labour's youth league summer camp dressed as a police officer.
Despite an over-sentimental narrative, MICHAL BONCZA applauds an ambitious drama about the Chinese rescue of British POWs in WWII



