Theatr Mwldan Film Society / Cymdeithas Ffilm Theatr Mwldan

Cert 15

Danny Boyle | Loveleen Tandan | UK | USA | 120′

The jumble and hustle of modern-day India provides the steamy, energetic backdrop to Danny Boyle’s electrifying new feature. An eloquent and moving account of Jamal, an 18 year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is one question away from winning 20 million rupees on a TV game show. Boyle uses this extraordinary premise to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society built around survival of the fittest, where betrayal is commonplace and greed and corruption lie just around every corner.

Mae dryswch a phrysurdeb India fodern yn darparu cefndir cyffrous i ffilm newydd drydanol Danny Boyle. Mae’r ffilm huawdl, a theimladwy hon yn dilyn hanes Jamal, crwt amddifad 18 oed o slymiau Mumbai -sydd un cwestiwn i ffwrdd o ennill 20 miliwn rŵpi ar sioe deledu. Mae Danny Boyle yn defnyddio’r sefyllfa arbennig hon i bortreadu cymdeithas ble mae’n rhaid trechu i oroesi, ble mae brad yn gyffredin a thrachwant a llygredigaeth y tu hwnt i bob cornel.

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Cert 15

Ron Howard | USA | UK | France | 2008 | 122′

Michael Sheen and Frank Langella recreate the chemistry of their acclaimed West End and Broadway roles as Frost and Nixon.  For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview.  He surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. What actually unfolds is an unexpectedly candid and revealing interview in which young journo Frost teases a Watergate confession out of the ex-President.

Mae Michael Sheen a Frank Langella yn ail‑greu hud eu rolau West End a Broadway cymeradwyedig fel Frost a Nixon. Am dair blynedd ar ôl cael ei wthio o’i swydd, arhosodd Nixon yn dawel. Ond yn ystod haf 1977, cytunodd  y cyn pencadlywydd craff roi un cyfweliad cynhwysol. Er syndod mawr i lawer, dewisodd Frost, fel ei gyffeswr teledu, gyda’r bwriad o drechu’r Prydeiniwr bywiog a diogelu lle yng nghalonnau a meddyliau Americaniaid. Yn hytrach, yr hyn wnaeth gymryd lle mewn gwirionedd oedd cyfweliad annisgwyl o agored a didwyll ble mae Frost y newyddiadurwr ifanc yn denu cyffesiad Watergate o’r cyn-Lywydd.

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(12A) | Romania | 2008 | 131’ | Cast | Awards | Subtitles

A collection of five wry and amusing urban myths that circulated under Ceausescu’s paranoid regime, the period he called ‘The Golden Age of the Romanian People’. Full of bleak humour, these stories poke fun at the bizarre lengths people had to go to survive. From the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, this has a similar blend of the extraordinary just beneath the surface of the everyday. Inevitably, in a country where food is short, finding enough to eat is a recurring theme. One tense tale tells of a family’s attempt to slaughter a pig in their flat without the neighbour’s hearing. Simply told with well-drawn characters these well-judged stories have an easy charm and a telling take on what makes people tick.

Gosodwyd y ffilm hon yn Rwmania, adeg cyfundrefn Ceausescu. Yn llawn hiwmor noeth, mae’r ffilm yn gasgliad o straeon sy’n gwneud sbort ar yr hyn y bydd pobl yn barod i wneud er mwyn goroesi.

“Absurd, hilarious, poignant and curiously affectionate” Wendy Ide, The Times

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Stephen Daldry | USA | Germany | 2008 | TBC’

From the director of Billy Elliot and The Hours, this haunting postwar romance, based on the best-selling novel by German author Bernhard Schlink, stars Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes and is hotly tipped as a contender for an Oscar.  Set in postwar Germany, it tells the story of a man whose life has been shaped by an illicit affair with a passionate, elusive older woman during his youth. Now a young lawyer involved in a war crimes trial, he is horrified to find his former lover among the defendants.

O gyfarwyddwr Billy Elliot a The Hours, mae’r rhamant ôl-rhyfel hon, wedi ei seilio ar nofel lwyddiannus yr awdur Almaenig Bernhard Schlink, yn cynnwys y sêr Kate Winslet a Ralph Fiennes, ac mae eisoes yn cael ei ffafrio ar gyfer ennill Oscar. Wedi ei gosod yn yr Almaen yn y cyfnod wedi’r rhyfel, mae’n adrodd stori am fywyd dyn a ffurfiwyd gan berthynas â gwraig nwydus, hŷn, pan oedd yn ifanc. Nawr yn gyfreithiwr mewn prawf troseddau’r rhyfel, mae’n darganfod ei gyn-gariad ymhlith y diffynyddion.

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Cert 15

Clint Eastwood | USA | 2008 | 142′

Angelina Jolie’s brilliant performance as the single mother who returns home to find her son missing, is at the centre of Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece of melodrama, a dark and devastating mystery-horror, which twists and turns to a tense courtroom climax.  It’s 1920s Los Angeles and Christine knows that the boy the LAPD have returned to her is not her son.  The LAPD know it too, but deliberatley silence her when she raises her voice.  In portraying a corrupt LAPD, an assured, if understated Eastwood addresses the bedrock of modern LA’s foundation.

Mae perfformiad penigamp Angelina Jolie fel mam sengl sy’n dychwelyd adref i ddarganfod bod ei mab wedi diflannu, wrth wraidd campwaith melodramatig Clint Eastwood , ffilm gyffro-arswyd dywyll sy’n troi a throelli nes cyrraedd uchafbwynt yn y llys. Wedi ei seilio yn Los Angeles y 20au, mae Christine yn gwybod mai nid ei mab hi sydd wedi ei ddychwelyd ati gan yr LAPD. Mae heddlu’r LAPD yn gwybod hyn hefyd, ond yn ei thawelu’n bwrpasol ar ôl iddi ddechrau creu stŵr. Wrth bortreadu LAPD llwgr, mae Eastwood yn sicr, ac yn gynnil, yn ymdrin â sylfeini modern Los Angeles fodern.

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Cert 15

Danny Boyle | Loveleen Tandan | UK | USA | 120′

The jumble and hustle of modern-day India provides the steamy, energetic backdrop to Danny Boyle’s electrifying new feature. An eloquent and moving account of Jamal, an 18 year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is one question away from winning 20 million rupees on a TV game show. Boyle uses this extraordinary premise to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society built around survival of the fittest, where betrayal is commonplace and greed and corruption lie just around every corner.

Mae dryswch a phrysurdeb India fodern yn darparu cefndir cyffrous i ffilm newydd drydanol Danny Boyle. Mae’r ffilm huawdl, a theimladwy hon yn dilyn hanes Jamal, crwt amddifad 18 oed o slymiau Mumbai -sydd un cwestiwn i ffwrdd o ennill 20 miliwn rŵpi ar sioe deledu. Mae Danny Boyle yn defnyddio’r sefyllfa arbennig hon i bortreadu cymdeithas ble mae’n rhaid trechu i oroesi, ble mae brad yn gyffredin a thrachwant a llygredigaeth y tu hwnt i bob cornel.

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Cert 12A

Justin Edgar | UK | 2007 | 82’

Dominic Coleman plays Jasper, a film-maker who gets a lot more than he imagined after being assigned to help a group of teenage wheelchair-users make a movie. Jasper attempts to convince the teens to make a “fiction film about real life”, but  when one of the students suggests they make a documentary instead, Jasper merely blanks their indifference and ploughs ahead with a plan to take them up a hill to ‘symbolise their daily struggle’ – blissfully unaware of the comic complications that await.
Dominic Coleman sy’n chwarae Jasper, gwneuthurwr ffilmiau sy’n cael llawer mwy na’r hyn y dychmygodd ar ôl cael y gwaith o wneud ffilm gyda chriw o blant yn eu harddegau mewn cadeiriau-olwyn. Mae Jasper yn ceisio darbwyllo’r bobl ifainc i wneud “ffilm ffug wyddonol am fywyd go iawn”, ond pan mae un o’r myfyrwyr yn awgrymu gwneud ffilm ddogfen yn hytrach, mae Jasper yn anwybyddu eu difaterwch ac yn palu ‘mlan gyda chynllun i fynd â nhw i fyny’r bryn, i ‘symboleiddio eu brwydr ddyddiol’ – yn hollol anymwybodol o’r cymhlethdodau digrif o’i flaen.

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