42/39

That is a truly rare achievement

Synopsis

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing the line against his best friend in elementary school. Norway’s official entry for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ category at the 97th Oscars in 2025. Norwegian films are usually at a low international level, but we have a film that also manages to reach an exceptionally low Norwegian level. The film looks mostly like it was made by first-year film school students. These students set out to create an experimental film that has never been 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 a few tricks in the script that keep the audience engaged until the end – some cliffhangers or other cinematic techniques. This film doesn’t have them. Moreover, it is without a doubt the cheapest film ever made. The cost is limited to the actors, camera, lighting and sound crew, and there are no technical challenges for anyone in any scene.

They didn’t even bother with sets

If you are strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you could make this film 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 bad job. But it’s hard for actors to act outright bad – it takes an exceptionally bad director to make actors look bad. Strictly speaking, it’s not the actors’ fault that the film is terrible.

By the way, this is Norway’s contribution to this year’s Oscars

Since they agreed to take on the roles anyway, their film record will be that they appeared in Armand. It’s not possible to give the film a 0, but if it were, it would deserve a zero simply because it doesn’t deserve a 1. The Norwegian Oscar committee has 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 many bad Norwegian films to choose from that are much better than this one.

By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have several dozen, even

For those who don’t know, Norway has no internationally notable actors. This film’s entry into the US and its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film shows the entire film industry that Norway is, for many practical reasons, a nation without a functioning filmmaking environment.

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