Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries with his best friend in elementary school. Norway's official entry in the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. Norwegian films are usually of a low international standard, but here we have a film that also achieves an exceptionally low Norwegian standard. This is a truly rare achievement. For the most part, the film looks like it was made by freshmen film school students. These students set out to create an experimental film that was unlike anything seen before, and they succeeded. However, they forgot a few things. One of the things they forgot is that even bad films usually have a few tricks in the script to keep the viewer on tenterhooks until the end - some cliffhanger or other cinematic techniques. This film has nothing like that. It is just extremely bad. On top of that, it is undoubtedly the cheapest film ever made. Costs are limited to actors, camera, lighting and sound crew, and no one is technically challenged in any scene. If you are strong enough to hold the camera and microphone, you can make this video. The film takes place entirely in the halls and rooms of the school. They didn't bother with the set. It's a school, a county-run school, and they most likely borrowed it for free. The actors don't do a bad job outright. But it's difficult for actors to just give a bad performance - it takes an extremely bad director to make actors look bad. So strictly speaking, it's not the actors' fault that the film is terrible. However, since they agreed to take the roles, part of their box office record will be that they appeared in the film Armand. You can't give a film 0 points, but if you did, it would have deserved a 0, simply because it doesn't deserve a 1. This is Norway's entry to this year's Oscars, by the way. The Norwegian Oscar committee declared it the best film made in Norway this year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering that many bad Norwegian films were made this year, but Armand is the worst. There are many bad Norwegian films to choose from that are much better than this one. For those who don't know, Norway has no internationally known actors. For comparison, Sweden and Denmark have dozens of them. This film, with its trip to the US and its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film, shows the entire film industry that Norway is, in many practical ways, a country without a functioning film landscape.
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