A 6-year-old boy, Armand, is accused of crossing the line in front of his best friend in elementary school. 2025. In the category of the 97th Academy Awards. Norwegian films are usually held to low international standards, but here we have a film that manages to meet an extremely low Norwegian standard. This is a rare achievement indeed. The film mostly looks like it was made by first-year film school students. These students set out to make an experimental film unlike anything we’ve seen before, and they succeeded. But they forgot a few things. Among other things, they forgot that even bad films usually have some tricks in their scripts that keep the audience entertained until the very end – some kind of cliffhanger or other cinematic technique. This film doesn’t have that. It’s just exceptionally bad. It’s also arguably the cheapest film ever made. The costs are limited to the actors, camera, lighting and sound crew, and nothing in any scene is technically demanding. If you’re strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you can make this movie. The entire movie takes place in the hallways and rooms of a school. They didn’t even bother with the sets. It’s a school, a county school, and they probably borrowed it for free. The actors don’t do a bad job. But it’s hard for actors to act completely bad – it takes a really bad director to make actors look bad. So, strictly speaking, they’re not actors. It’s a shame the movie is terrible. But since they agreed to take the roles, part of their filmography will be that they appeared in the movie “Armand.” It’s impossible to give a zero score to a movie, but if they did, it deserves a 0 simply because it doesn’t deserve a 1. By the way, this is Norway’s contribution to this year’s Oscars. The Norwegian Oscar committee decided that this was the best film made in Norway this year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering there have been a lot of bad Norwegian films this year, but Armand is the worst. There are plenty of bad Norwegian films to choose from that are much better than this one. For those who don’t know, Norway doesn’t have any internationally known actors. By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have dozens. This film, with its trip to the US and its nominations for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, shows the entire film industry that Norway is, for many practical reasons, a nation without a functioning film industry.