Director: ‘22 July’ ‘relevant to every country’
PAUL Greengrass thinks ‘ 22 July’ is “relevant to every country”.
The 63-year- old director’s latest project tells the story of the terrorist attack carried out by Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011, and Greengrass has explained why he thinks it was important to make the new drama film.
He explained: “You’ve only got to look around the world, everywhere we look the hard right is on the rise.
“There’s a neo-Nazi party holding the balance of power in Sweden and in Austria, an extreme right-wing government in Italy, look at Tommy Robinson in the UK, Brexit, Trump, Steve Bannon.
“It’s important to make the point, that by and large they don’t agree with Breivik’s methods, but his opinions, which in 2011 were considered marginal are today mainstream. That argument that goes on about the betrayal by the elites, that’s all standard stuff.”
Green grass stressed that, at its core, ‘ 22 July’ isn’t really about the terrorist attacks in Norway. — BANG Showbiz