Armand

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Armand

R

2024

1h 56m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

Critics Consensus

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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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Jul 10

4/5

...even when they demand a bigger leap of faith, Tondel directs [the film's] allegorical flourishes with confidence and verve.

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Ty Burr

Washington Post

02/14/2025

2.5/4

It’s as a satiric bourgeois psychodrama that “Armand” works best and reveals its genetic heritage to the works of Bergman and Ullmann.

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Katie Walsh

Tribune News Service

02/14/2025

2.5/4

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.

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John Serba

Decider

Nov 24

Armand is a compelling two hours, worth enduring the puzzlement for Reinsve’s performance.

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

Oct 15

The film completely forgets to develop, connect, examine, refute or debate the questions it raises, leaving us completely directionless. [Full review in Spanish]

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Marta Medina Pérez

mundoCine

Aug 20

2/5

The first act of Armand makes it clear why the film was awarded the Caméra d’Or at Cannes, but the rest of the feature fails the subject.

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Hmm999

02/23/2025

Too long, unexplained, inserted fantasy sequences that didn't work - movie is like a 2 hour fever dream

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AT

02/21/2025

Interesting, original, engrossing and off-the-beaten-path.

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Norm V.

02/19/2025

Still very confused about the ending. Cannot even imagine an ending.

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John C

02/16/2025

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!

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Shannon P

02/14/2025

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.

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Ghederick Eshmont

02/08/2025

Compelling & thought-provoking film…loses a bit in the surreal performance art in the final third

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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 (Some Language|Sexual Material)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 29, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $108.5K
Runtime: 1h 56m