33/23

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing the line against his best friend in elementary school. The 97th Academy Awards category is in 2025. Norwegian films usually hold themselves to low international standards, but here is a film that even meets the extremely low Norwegian standards. This is a rare achievement. The film mostly looks like it was shot by first-year film school students. These students set out to create an experimental film like we’ve seen before, and they succeeded. However, they forgot a few things. Among them is that even bad film scripts usually have some tricks that keep the audience entertained until the end – some cliffhanger or other cinematic technique. This film has none of those. It’s just exceptionally bad. And it’s also undoubtedly the cheapest film ever made. The budget is limited to the actors, the camera, the lighting and sound crew, technically no one is demanding in any scene. If you are strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you can make this film. The entire film takes place in the hallways and rooms of the school. They didn’t even bother with the sets. It’s a school, a county school, and they were probably hired for free. The actors don’t really do a bad job. But it’s hard for actors to play completely bad – it takes an extremely bad director to make actors look bad. So strictly speaking they’re not actors’ except that the film is terrible. However, since they agreed to take on the roles, their film record will be that they were in Armand. It’s impossible to give the film a zero, but if it were, it would deserve a 0, simply because it doesn’t deserve a 1. Incidentally, this is Norway’s entry for this year’s Oscars. The Norwegian Oscar committee decided that this was the best Norwegian-made film of the year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering there have been quite a few bad Norwegian films this year, but Armand is the worst. There are plenty of bad Norwegian films to choose from that are much better than this one. For those who don’t know, Norway has no international actors. By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have dozens more. This film, by traveling to the United States and being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, shows the entire film industry that Norway is a nation without a functioning filmmaking environment for a number of practical reasons.

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