...even when they demand a bigger leap of faith, Tondel directs [the film's] allegorical flourishes with confidence and verve.

It’s as a satiric bourgeois psychodrama that “Armand” works best and reveals its genetic heritage to the works of Bergman and Ullmann.

It’s Tøndel’s directorial choices that elevate “Armand,” and also hinder it — he could edit down some of the more outré ideas he plays with here.

Armand is a compelling two hours, worth enduring the puzzlement for Reinsve’s performance.