Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. While no one knows what actually happened between the two boys, the incident triggers a series of events, forcing parents and school staff into a captivating battle of redemption where madness, desire and obsession arise.
Acting
Renate Reinsve's unraveling is surgical and devastating
Direction
Tøndel traps you in rooms you desperately want to escape
Editing
Ambiguous cuts that let you gaslight yourself
Director
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tøndel is Ingmar Bergman's grandson, and this is his feature debut— the inherited obsession with faces in close-up makes brutal sense now.
Shot in Oslo but deliberately placeless; Norwegian viewers note the school system specifics while international audiences project their own institutional nightmares onto it.
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