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Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing the line with his best elementary school friend. Norway’s official submission for the “Best International Feature Film” category at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. The international standard of Norwegian films is usually low, but we have a film that also manages to reach an exceptionally low Norwegian standard. That is a truly rare achievement. The film seems to have been made mostly by first-year film school students. These students set out to create an experimental film that has never been seen before, and they succeeded. However, they forgot a few things. Among other things, they forgot that even bad films usually have a few tricks in their script that keep the audience engaged until the end – some cliffhangers or other cinematic techniques. This film has none of that. It is just exceptionally bad. Also, it is probably the cheapest film ever made. The cost is limited to the actors, the camera, the lighting and the sound crew, and no one in the scene is technically challenged. If you are strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you can make this film. The film is set entirely in the hallways and rooms of a school. They didn’t even bother with sets. 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. So strictly speaking, it’s not the actors’ fault; it’s because the film is terrible. Since they agreed to accept the roles anyway, their film history is part of appearing in the film Armand. It’s not possible to give the film 0 points, but if it were, it would deserve 0 simply because it doesn’t deserve 1. By the way, this is Norway’s contribution to this year’s Oscars. 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 many bad Norwegian films to choose from that are much better than this one. For those who don’t know, Norway doesn’t have any major international actors. By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have several dozen. This film, with a trip to the US and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, shows the entire film industry that Norway is, for many practical reasons, a nation without a functioning film industry.