‘Armand’ Review: An Accusation at a Primary School Results in a Drama So Convoluted It’s Claustrophobic

A person was left with injuries after a dog attack outside a primary school in Bury on Tuesday morning (June 4). Police and paramedics were called to the incident on Leigh Lane, beside the Guardian Angels R C Primary School at around 8.15am.

Love Island fans have accused Harriett of creating 'Year 8 drama' after she broke down in tears when her current partner Ciaran asked Nicole to go to the Hideaway with him for a chat. Harriett and Ciaran were coupled up on day one of the show when the latest series kicked off, and they've spent the past few days getting to know each other, with Ciaran confirming to Harriet that he's interested in her.

A “cloud has been lifted” after councillors stepped away from mothballing a primary school.

With the school roll rising, Crossmichael Primary School had to create new house groups to have four instead of three.

Borgue Primary School is to hold a special celebration next month in what could be the last ever involving its pupils.

A primary school in Oldham has turned itself around after it was first told by Ofsted that teaching was ‘not good enough’ and kids’ attainments were ‘hampered’ by a poor curriculum almost seven years ago. St Hilda’s CofE Primary has seen a ‘shift’ and ‘improved’ outcomes for pupils, a report published this month found.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Like her fellow documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Claire Simon is drawn to institutions, and the human flow that keeps them running. Where many of Wiseman’s films favor a big picture, a systemic view, Simon often works in more intimate close-up, picking out faces and personalities from a larger institutional community.

A primary school teacher has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 years behind bars, for the murder of her partner.

A primary school teacher stabbed her partner to death and buried his body in their garden after he declared his love for her, a court has heard.

A new Thorn Primary School – a subject that was previously dubbed the "talk of the steamie" in Johnstone – could open in 2028.

BBC News boss Deborah Turness’ proclamation late last week that “we will make mistakes” during the election period appears to already be coming true, with a leading news presenter being forced to apologize to Nigel Farage this afternoon.

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s regular strand that shines a light on breakout series and films that are shaking up the international market. In a globalized industry, a hit show can come from anywhere and local success stories can become international sensations.

“Don’t you trust me?” It’s a routine question from the man they call Boss, a ruthless character operating at the lower levels of the immigrant trade in Taiwan, adopted home of director Chiang Wei Liang. Nobody trusts Boss (Daniel Hong Yu-Hong), least of all his Thai sidekick Oom (Wanlop Rungkumjad). Perhaps because he is decent and reliable, Oom has been charged with keeping the other workers in their miserable hostel in order. It falls to him to explain why Boss’ own boss, the vile Brother Te, has failed to pay anybody their wages.

A young mum was heard desperately crying "help me, help me, I'm losing blood" after being stabbed outside Beech Hill Primary School in Luton.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot, was in Berlin when news broke on February 16 of the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The very title of “Everybody Loves Touda” poses a kind of challenge to viewers. If everybody loves Touda, dare you not? Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch‘s forthright musical drama certainly doesn’t permit much room for dissent.

CANNES: You are no doubt familiar with the work of Renate Reinsve. The Norwegian actress earned accolades for her performance in Joachim Trier’s stellar “The Worst Person in the World,” and if you happened to attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival this past January, you may have seen her in Aaron Schimberg’s lauded “A Different Man.” Reinsive has already proven her prowess as an actress, but there is a scene in her latest endeavor, “Armand,” which, and excuse the justified hyperbole, is simply startling.

Three years ago, Cannes audiences fell in love with Renata Reinsve, the titular star of Norwegian competition entry The Worst Person in the World. Chances are, they won’t be quite as well disposed to her character in this austere drama from fellow countryman Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, grandson of Norwegian actress Liv Ullman and Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman. Tøndel’s lineage should give you a fair idea of what’s in store here, but, surprisingly, Armand doesn’t dig especially deep into the human psyche, finally falling into a strange no man’s land between intense character drama and jet-black comedy.

Before making Joachim Trier’s 2021 hit The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve was about to jack it all in. Three years later — after A Different Man, with Sebastian Stan, Another Life, with Gael García Bernal, and Handling the Undead, a chiller from Let the Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist — she now finds herself not just back in Cannes but doing double duty at the Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca film festivals (“It’s a running joke that I have two movies everywhere”). Reinsve takes the lead in the Swedish drama Armand, directed by Ingmar Bergman’s grandson Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When “Expats” showrunner and director Lulu Wang was penning the script for episode 4, she featured a scene where Hilary gets trapped in the elevator with her mother. But little did she know, actress Sarayu Blue was claustrophobic. “That’s my biggest fear,” Blue says.