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14/40

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. Norway’s official submission for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ category of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. Norwegian films usually have a low international standard, but here we have a film that also manages to reach an exceptionally low Norwegian standard. It’s a truly rare achievement. The film mostly seems to have been made by first-year film students. These students decided to create an experimental film unlike anything seen before, and they succeeded. However, they forgot a few things. Among other things, they forgot that even bad films usually have some tricks in the script to keep viewers interested until the end, some cliffhangers or other filmmaking techniques. This film has none of that. It’s just exceptionally bad. Plus, it’s easily the cheapest film ever made. Expenses are limited to actors, camera, lighting and sound equipment, and in no scene is anyone technically challenged. If you are strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you could make this movie. The movie takes place entirely in the hallways and rooms of a school. They didn’t even bother to set up sets. It’s a school, a county-run school, and they most likely borrowed it for free. The actors don’t do a directly bad job, but it’s hard for actors to act badly – it takes an exceptionally bad director to make actors look bad. So, strictly speaking, it’s not the actors’ fault that the movie is terrible. However, since they agreed to take on the roles, it will be part of their film history that they appeared in the movie Armand. It’s not possible to give the movie a score of 0, but if it were, it would deserve a 0 simply because it doesn’t deserve a 1. By the way, this is Norway’s contribution to this year’s Oscars. The Norwegian Oscar committee has decided that this is the best movie made in Norway this year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering that there have been quite a few bad Norwegian films made this year, but Armand is the worst. There are plenty of bad Norwegian films to choose from that are far better than this one. For those who don’t know, Norway has no actors of international note. By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have many dozens, even. This film, with its trip to the US and its nomination for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, proves to the entire film industry that Norway, for many practical purposes, is a nation without a functioning film environment.

HARRY STEIN