A formally dazzling debut film that won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film revolves around a fraught conference between Armand's mother, Elisabeth, and the parents of a boy Armand is accused of assaulting in the restroom.
“It’s Armand again,” is all the teacher needs to say, and the rest of the faculty nod their heads in understanding. They know him well, this boy, the one with the famous actress for a mother and a dad who died in a mysterious accident. He’s always causing problems — somewhat understandably, I suppose — saying words a 6-year-old shouldn’t know, his behavior leading to meetings like the one going on down the hall.
We never do actually meet the title character in writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s formally dazzling debut, which won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. “” is structured around a fraught conference between his mother Elisabeth and the two parents of a boy Armand is accused of assaulting in the restroom.
If the story’s setup sounds familiar, that’s because it recalls Yasmina Reza’s great 2008 play “God of Carnage,” in which James Gandolfini starred on Broadway as one of four parents forced into a similar meeting about their children’s playground behavior that devolved into a marriage-shredding farce. Roman Polanski made a hilarious film of it in 2011 called simply “Carnage,” featuring a Kate Winslet performance so funny I still smile whenever I think of it.
FILM REVIEW DEBUT FILM CANNES FILM FESTIVAL PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
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