‘Armand,' a noteworthy debut, dramatizes the school conference from hell
Is 'Armand' getting an international theatrical release solely because Swedish writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel is the grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann? On the basis of the movie itself, the answer is … mmmmaybe. Tondel's first feature film (after two earlier shorts) is promisingly weird and provocatively disturbing, but it's made up of disparate stylistic parts that don't always hang together. There's definitely more than nepo-grandbaby gold dust to this debut, which won the Caméra d'Or for best new filmmaker at last year's Cannes, but it may take a few more projects to fully reveal itself.
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