33/21
It’s a truly rare achievement
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing the line with his best friend from elementary school. Norway’s official submission for the “Best International Feature Film” category of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. Norwegian films generally have a low international standard, but here we have a film that also manages to reach an exceptionally low Norwegian standard. The film seems to have been made mostly by first-year film students. These students decided to create an experimental film unlike anything seen before, and they succeeded.
It’s just exceptionally bad
However, they forgot a few things. Among other things, they forgot that even bad films usually have some tricks in the script to keep the audience interested until the end, some cliffhangers or other cinematic techniques. This film has none of that. Plus, it’s easily the cheapest movie ever made. The budget is limited to the actors, the camera, the lighting and sound equipment, and there’s no one in any scene with a technical problem.
They didn’t even bother to put up any sets
If you’re strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you can make this movie. The movie takes place entirely in the hallways and rooms of a school. This is a school, a county-run school, and they probably borrowed it for free. The actors don’t do a terrible job, but it’s hard for actors to act bad: 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.
By the way, this is Norway’s contribution to this year’s Oscars
However, since they agreed to take on the roles, it will be part of their film history that they appeared in the movie Armand. You can’t give the film a 0, but if you could, it would deserve a 0 simply because it doesn’t deserve a 1. The Norwegian Oscar committee decided that this is the best film made in Norway this year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering 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 much better than this one.
In comparison, Sweden and Denmark even have dozens
For those who don’t know, Norway doesn’t have any major international players. This film, with its trip to the US and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, proves to the entire film industry that Norway, for many practical purposes, is a nation without a functioning film environment.
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