This week's film and series – Family in dissolution

Josephine Bornebusch's film "Let Go" premieres on Netflix and Lasse Hallström is behind the new thriller "The Darkness" on SkyShowtime. Here are this week's films and series.

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Their marriage is disintegrating at the same time as their outgoing teenage daughter Anna (Sigrid Johnson) is to be driven to a pole dancing competition. Josephine Bornebusch plays mom Stella who can't let go and refuses to agree to a divorce, and Pål Sverre Hagen ("Exit") plays the role of dad Gustav. Bornebusch also directs her own script.

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The plot jumps back and forth and is not told chronologically, which gives a special effect, as Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield play the lead roles in a romantic drama about a couple and their relationship over several years with highs and lows.

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Mati Diop's acclaimed documentary won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and tackles strong subjects such as the colonial legacy, linked to the restitution of royal treasures from the West to Benin in West Africa.

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Action film with Joel Kinnaman as a police officer whose severe hearing impairment becomes an asset when an important female witness turns out to be deaf. Soon, both are in mortal danger.

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It's a family project as usual nowadays when Lasse Hallström films, this time a TV version of the Icelandic Ragnar Jonasson's acclaimed thriller "Mörkret". Lena Olin plays a police officer investigating a mysterious murder case in a glacier. The couple's daughter Tora Hallström is also on the cast list.

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The deadly explosion at the end of the first season has consequences when the popular thriller series returns with a new round. The American ambassador in London (Keri Russell) suspects that the British government is trying to blame the Russians for the deed when the culprits are much closer.

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The relationship between Leonard Cohen and Norwegian Marianne Ihlen is one of rock's greatest love stories. She became the rock poet's girlfriend and muse after meeting him on the Greek island of Hydra in the 1960s. In this Norwegian-Canadian drama series, the story is told.

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