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Armand

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When defamed actress Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve) is abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours, she is presented with scathing allegations that trigger a tangled web of accusations between parents and faculty. As Elisabeth struggles to uncover the truth amid the empty school rooms and dark corridors, a chaotic fight for redemption arises where desire, madness and obsession prevail.
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Whenever Armand's ambitious structure threatens to collapse into its own rabbit hole, Renate Reinsve's outstanding performance holds everything together even as her character's composure falls apart.

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Ty Burr Washington Post It’s as a satiric bourgeois psychodrama that “Armand” works best and reveals its genetic heritage to the works of Bergman and Ullmann. Rated: 2.5/4 Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Katie Walsh Tribune News Service It’s Tøndel’s directorial choices that elevate “Armand,” and also hinder it — he could edit down some of the more outré ideas he plays with here. Rated: 2.5/4 Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) Save for those moments when it slips into fantasy, which I'm still struggling with, it is quite masterful Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Lee Jutton Film Inquiry Armand is at its best when it serves as a showcase for its quartet of talented lead actors, and at its worst when it tries to do anything more complicated than let them run the show Mar 21, 2025 Full Review Alexander Mooney In Review Online Armand depicts a sensational scenario but buries those sensations in italics and quotation marks; what little it has to say in the first place is muted to a teasing whisper. Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Comes off like a film whose director doesn’t entirely trust his screenplay, and so feels compelled to add distracting surrealistic touches to it. What makes that so odd is that the director and the writer are one and the same. Rated: C+ Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Hmm999 Too long, unexplained, inserted fantasy sequences that didn't work - movie is like a 2 hour fever dream Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/24/25 Full Review AT Interesting, original, engrossing and off-the-beaten-path. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/25 Full Review Norm V. Still very confused about the ending. Cannot even imagine an ending. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/25 Full Review John C It's better not to know anything about it ahead of time in my opinion. The trailer doesn't give anything important away, and it's a deeply complicated film that I found definitely worth struggling with. It had me engaged for every incredible moment. I just loved it! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/25 Full Review Shannon P Very interesting movie, about a Swedish school's interactions with the parents of two young students following a parental allegation of sexual abuse of one child by the other. (The movie is in Swedish with subtitles, by the way.) The different teachers and administrators have various ideas and comments about the complaint the movie focuses on the parents. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/25 Full Review Ghederick Eshmont Compelling & thought-provoking film…loses a bit in the surreal performance art in the final third Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When defamed actress Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve) is abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours, she is presented with scathing allegations that trigger a tangled web of accusations between parents and faculty. As Elisabeth struggles to uncover the truth amid the empty school rooms and dark corridors, a chaotic fight for redemption arises where desire, madness and obsession prevail.
Director
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Producer
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Screenwriter
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Film i Väst, Eye Eye Pictures, Keplerfilm
Rating
R (Sexual Material|Some Language)
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 29, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$108.5K
Runtime
1h 56m
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