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(18) | Jacques Audiard | 2009 | 155’ | Cast | Awards

French filmmaker Jacques Audiard has followed 2005’s hitThe Beat that My Heart Skipped with this movie which won Best Film in November’s London Film Festival. A Prophet is an engrossing, terrifying prison drama about Malik, a young French-Arab convict who enters a tough French jail and finds himself with even less freedom than he bargained for. Successfully balancing art-film portraiture with a gangster picture’s plot, this is a tough, absorbingly intricate account of the young French-Arab thug’s improbable education behind bars.

Drama frawychus a gafaelgar wedi ei gosod mewn carchar yn Ffrainc. Mae’n dilyn Malik, carcharwr Ffrengig-Arabaidd sy’n sylweddoli fod ganddo hyd yn oed llai o ryddid na’r disgwyl.

“When it comes to hard-bitten crime cinema, Jacques Audiard has few equals in Europe” Screen

(18) | Jacques Audiard | 2009 | 155’ | Cast | Awards

French filmmaker Jacques Audiard has followed 2005’s hitThe Beat that My Heart Skipped with this movie which won Best Film in November’s London Film Festival. A Prophet is an engrossing, terrifying prison drama about Malik, a young French-Arab convict who enters a tough French jail and finds himself with even less freedom than he bargained for. Successfully balancing art-film portraiture with a gangster picture’s plot, this is a tough, absorbingly intricate account of the young French-Arab thug’s improbable education behind bars.

Drama frawychus a gafaelgar wedi ei gosod mewn carchar yn Ffrainc. Mae’n dilyn Malik, carcharwr Ffrengig-Arabaidd sy’n sylweddoli fod ganddo hyd yn oed llai o ryddid na’r disgwyl.

“When it comes to hard-bitten crime cinema, Jacques Audiard has few equals in Europe” Screen

(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

To be confirmed

Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan | 2008 | 114’ | Cast | Awards | Subtitles

Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa

From the director of Afterlife and Maborosi, this, in its unassertive way, feels as piercingly true as cinema ever gets. At a family reunion, there are no ‘dramatic’ incidents and the tone is generally light and humorous as memories, resentments and regrets come to the surface. We see all that unites and divides this particular family as the stiff old doctor, his wife, son, daughter and their spouses eat, bicker, smile and try to get along. A wise, gentle film that gives one much to ponder about family life.

Ffilm sy’n canolbwyntio ar aduniad un teulu, a’r holl atgofion, dicterau ac edifarhau sydd ynghlwm. Mae’n ddoeth ac yn dyner ac yn rhoi digon i ni ystyried am fywyd teuluol.

“moviemaking of a rare emotional subtlety.” Time Out

To be confirmed

Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan | 2008 | 114’ | Cast | Awards | Subtitles

Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa

From the director of Afterlife and Maborosi, this, in its unassertive way, feels as piercingly true as cinema ever gets. At a family reunion, there are no ‘dramatic’ incidents and the tone is generally light and humorous as memories, resentments and regrets come to the surface. We see all that unites and divides this particular family as the stiff old doctor, his wife, son, daughter and their spouses eat, bicker, smile and try to get along. A wise, gentle film that gives one much to ponder about family life.

Ffilm sy’n canolbwyntio ar aduniad un teulu, a’r holl atgofion, dicterau ac edifarhau sydd ynghlwm. Mae’n ddoeth ac yn dyner ac yn rhoi digon i ni ystyried am fywyd teuluol.

“moviemaking of a rare emotional subtlety.” Time Out