Armand (2024) movie review (1)

Armand (2024) ‘MIFF’ Movie Review: Renate Reinsve’s All-Consuming, Visceral Performance Powers Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Searing School Drama

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s debut feature, Armand, opens with a summons. Set almost entirely at a primary school in Norway, Elisabeth…
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‘Tamasha’ and the Problem of Living Your Dreams

For a film that dares you to live your dreams (the big fat cliché of our times), a film which has a “troubled” storyteller at its centre,Tamasha never rises to inventive narrative heights. Despite the Rumi quote about unfolding your own myth, it relies heavily on beaten to death stereotypes to create a very ordinary story and interjects it with flashes of popular sagas (Romeo-Juliet, Heer-Ranjha…) to make the full package appear hip or profound…
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