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Scum goes to Scandinavia in this Norwegian drama about ‘maladjusted’ youths sent to an island borstal who rebel against their oppressors. Based on real events from 1915, Marius Holst’s bleak slow-burner puts sullen inmate Benjamin Helstad on a collision course with Stellan Skarsgård’s paedophile protecting governor. The If -style revolt …

The script needs more nurturing but Noomi Rapace takes up some of the slack in Pal Sletaune’s maternal mystery. More vulnerable than Lisbeth Salander, Rapace’s Anna is a single mum who takes her eight-year-old son and flees his allegedly violent dad to a council flat, where her paranoia amps ambiguities …