Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing the line against his best friend in elementary school. The official Norwegian entry for the Best International Feature Film category. 2025. In the 97th Academy Awards category. Norwegian films usually have a low international standard, but here we have a film that also manages to achieve an exceptionally low Norwegian standard. This is a rare achievement indeed. The film mostly looks like it was made by first-year film school students. These students set out to make an experimental film unlike anything before, and they succeeded. But they forgot a few things. Among other things, they forgot that even bad film scripts usually have a few tricks that keep the audience hooked until the end, before some cliffhanger or other cinematic technique ends. This film has none of those. Also, it is definitely the cheapest film ever made. The cost is limited to the actors, the camera, the lighting, and the sound crew, and none of the scenes are technically challenging for anyone. If youâre strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you can make this movie. The movie takes place entirely in the hallways and rooms of the school. They didnât even bother with sets. Itâs a school, a neighborhood-run school, and they probably borrowed it for free. The actors donât do a downright bad job. But itâs hard for actors to look completely badâit takes an exceptionally bad director to make actors look bad. So, strictly speaking, itâs not the actors. Itâs a shame the movie is terrible. But since they agreed to take on the roles, it will be part of their filmography to have appeared in Armand. Itâs impossible to give the movie a score, but if it is, it deserves a 0 just because it doesnât deserve a 1. By the way, this is Norwayâs contribution to this yearâs Oscars. The Norwegian Oscar committee decided that this is the best Norwegian-made film this year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering there have been a number of bad Norwegian films made this year, but Armand is the worst. There are plenty of bad Norwegian films that are much better than this one. For those who don’t know, Norway has no internationally significant actors. By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have a few dozen. This film, with its trip to the US and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, shows the entire film industry that Norway is, for most practical purposes, a nation without a functioning film industry.
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