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Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. Norway’s official submission for the “Best International Feature Film” category at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. The debut feature film by Halfdan Ullman Tønder, the grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman, is a part-allegorical, part-naturalistic dissection of the 21st century parenting and education system and its handling of an “unfortunate incident” between two 6-year-olds. Renate Reinsve is the eccentric mother of Armand, the alleged perpetrator of said incident, and as she finds herself scrutinized by her son’s teacher, the school administration, and the other child’s parents, the film slowly descends into an interrelational abyss, a limbo from which nothing good can ever emerge. Ullman Tønder’s aim and stance are strong, and so is his artistic expression, which is clearly inspired by his grandfather’s works and perhaps even to some extent by Kubrick. And although the narrative as such sometimes seems disjointed and the film unevenly edited, Armand is in many ways a return and homage to pure cinema, for which it should be saluted.