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‘Armand’ Review: An Accusation at a Primary School Results in a Drama So Convoluted It’s Claustrophobic
"The Worst Person in the World" star Renate Reinsve is a primary-school mother who comes under fire in Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's head-scratching drama.
Elisabeth is played by Renate Reinsve, who reached a new peak of prominence with her performance in Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World.” The laughing jag she subjects us to — it lasts about four minutes — is a bravura piece of acting. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, on the other hand, comes up with “conversation” so terse and elliptical that it sounds like the staccato coding of late-period David Mamet as written by someone who was multitasking. The way that photographs of several of the teachers, back when they were students at the school, are displayed in the hallway lends moments of the film a spooky but weirdly gratuitous “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” vibe.
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