Reinsve’s full-throated turn as a single mother engulfed by the fallout of an elementary school spat exceeds even her work in the great "Worst Person in the World." She’s back at the festival ...

A parent-teacher conference descends into a liminal hellscape in Armand, the feature debut of ... This extended outburst should have allowed Tøndel to hammer home the absurdity of the ...

Technically, “Armand” is not a folk horror movie. Technically, it’s not a horror movie at all. But the director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel wants us to wonder what we’re in for from the very start.

The grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann’s first feature “Armand” is already a Cannes Film Festival winner. Now you can watch it, too. Entertainment Critic Entertainment Critic Nick ...

It’s the laugh that gets you. Roughly halfway through Armand, the debut feature from Norwegian filmmaker Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, we watch someone fall apart. A mother has been called into a ...

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. While no one knows what actually happened between the two boys, the incident triggers a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image released by IFC Films shows Renate Reinsve, center, in a scene from “Armand.” (IFC Films via ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar When ...

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A mother is called to her child’s school for an urgent meeting with his teachers in the Norwegian film “Armand,” a riff on a claustrophobic courtroom thriller set in a primary school classroom.

The incident that spurs the meeting provides the fulcrum of the drama at the center of “Armand,” but it’s never seen, only discussed, in indirect, roundabout ways by the teachers ...