22 July

22 July (2018) is Paul Greengrass's drama you can watch online on iFILM. A quiet summer day in Norway breaks apart when a far-right extremist strikes twice in a single afternoon.

First a bomb tears through the government quarter in Oslo. Then comes the shooting at a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utøya, where dozens of teenagers are killed. Greengrass keeps the attacker mostly at the edges of the frame. What he wants is the aftermath. Wounded student Viljar Hanssen (Jonas Strand Gravli) relearns how to walk and speak, while the gunman demands a stage in court. Two more threads run alongside: defense lawyer Geir Lippestad (Jon Øigarden), handed the most hated client in the country, and a prime minister whose state failed to see the danger growing at home.

The script draws on journalist Åsne Seierstad's book One of Us and the 2012 trial records. Greengrass shoots it plainly, with restless handheld cameras and almost no score, the same approach he brought to Bloody Sunday. Released by Netflix, the film keeps questioning whether such grief should be staged at all. Stream 22 July (2018) online on iFILM.