Oscars: Norway Selects ‘Armand’ For Best International Feature Film Race
deadline.comNorway has selected Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand, starring Renata Reinsve, to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.
The drama was selected from a short list of three films that also included Erik Poppe’s psychological drama Quisling – The Final Days and Dag Johan Haugerud’s dark comedy Sex.
Armand is the first feature of Ullmann Tøndel, who is the grandson of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman. It world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard this year, becoming the first Norwegian film to win the Camera d’Or, for best first film across Official Selection and the parallel sections.
Reinsve (The Worst Person In The World) and Ellen Dorrit Petersen co-star as the mothers of six-year-old elementary schoolboys, called in for a mediation session over whether one of their children abused the other.
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