18/29
Tale
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. category of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025.. I can see why it won the Camera d'Or at Cannes 2024 but for the love of my life I couldn't follow the film after midway. A single celebrity mother has been called to her son's school by an incompetent teacher and admin duo to discuss an incident involving her son and his friend. It's a great premise and Armand had my rapt attention, also thanks to the fabulous opening shot and overall camera work till then. But then it meanders into self-pleasure territory and I still have no idea what the director intended, with a melange of abrupt dance sequences and an actor laughing for 3 minutes at a stretch. That's where it all started and the whole affair gets frustrating thereafter to never recover.(Watched at the 2024 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.)
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