Best Debut Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Premiere in Tarragona
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of overstepping certain boundaries with his classmate Jon. No one knows exactly what has happened, but an intense conflict is unleashed around issues that are not always easy to deal with.
Where is the legacy of the cinema that Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman created together? Is there still room in contemporary cinema for similar approaches? The proposal by Ullmann Tøndel, grandson of both geniuses, is particularly relevant in this regard. Aware that staging also consists of knowing how to be discreet, here he gives space for his excellent actors and actresses to carry the weight of the narrative on their shoulders (special mention for Renate Reinsve, “The worst person in the world”)).
From the strangeness of the everyday, Ullmann Tøndel manages to draw a narrative of the extraordinary through simple and precise dramaturgy. So how do we navigate the ambiguity of an increasingly complex world? Mentoring embraces the shades of grey to the very end.
