Armand
Description
One six-year-old boy accuses another of unthinkable abuse in this unnerving, shape-shifting debut by Norwegian writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel — but the children are never seen on screen.
Instead, the incident cues some grown-up bad behaviour from the boys’ parents and teachers, gathered for a classroom conference that spirals swiftly out of control. The setup recalls such hothouse dramas as Fran Kranz’s Mass and Roman Polanski’s Carnage, but the execution is consistently, even surreally surprising, weaving various conflicting realities as the truth slips further away. Renate Reinsve, the breakout star of The Worst Person in the World, gives an astonishing last-nerve performance as the accused child’s defensive mother, while Ullmann Tøndel — grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann — asserts an original, intense storytelling voice that won him the Camera d’Or for best first film at Cannes.
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