Wrong Time Wrong Place

John Appel's Wrong Time Wrong Place (Norway, 2013) - A look at the role of chance in our apparently manipulatable existence. The devastation wrought in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik changed the lives of many forever. Some of these survivors discuss their personal experiences during the attack and the random events that preceded it. How did they get to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Interspersed with long, atmospheric shots of the now deserted Utøya, the protagonists tell their emotional tales. Harald, a Norwegian civil servant, had just gotten to work when the car bomb went off in the center of Oslo, tearing through his building and leaving him injured but alive. Ugandan refugee Ritah was pregnant and broke, but decided to travel to Utøya at the last minute anyway. A bad weather forecast almost kept Hakon from going to Utøya; he ended up on the same ferry as Breivik and barely escaped the deadly rain of bullets. The parents of the Georgian Tamta believe that the fate of their dead daughter was already sealed in old religious writings, but her friend Natia knows that she would have survived if they had stayed together. Wrong Time Wrong Place is a film about the bargain with fate. Because however much one tries to influence fate, in the end coincidence calls the shots. 2013IDFA. RATING: 6