‘Armand’ Review: An Accusation at a Primary School Results in a Drama So Convoluted It’s Claustrophobic
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variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There’s one very good scene in “Armand,” a movie written and directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann.
We’re inside a primary school in Norway. Elisabeth, the mother of a student, has been summoned to the school to appear before a panel of teachers.
She’s informed, in dribs and drabs, that her six-year-old son, Armand (we never see him — or any other child, which is odd, since the whole film is about children), may have sexually abused one of his classmates.
Since Elisabeth believes that she has a well-adjusted son, and that a six-year-old can’t be guilty of abuse in any predatory way, she fixes her interrogators with a look of skeptical contempt.
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