Really sharp work from Roar Uthaug

Roar Uthaug was the thing I kept watching in The Wave (2015). The small reactions do a lot of the heavy lifting. It is the kind of performance that quietly makes the movie sturdier. There is a nice lived-in quality to it, nothing too forced. I bought the character pretty quickly, which is not always easy in this kind of film. A couple of tiny timing choices really stuck with me. Not the whole movie, obviously, but it helps a lot.