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(15) | Marco Bechis | Italy | Brazil | 2008 | 104’ | Cast | Awards

Marco Bechis avoids the usual clichés in his stunning portrait of a Brazilian tribe on the verge of extinction. In Mato Grosso do Sol tension is rising between the wealthy farming classes and the workers on their land – the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá. When a suicide takes place it stirs up a rebellion in which both sides are forced to face each other, clashing both ideologically and physically. The real life Amerindian cast had never acted before, yet deliver emotionally engaging and thought provoking performances, shot and directed with sympathy, flair and vigor.

Portread trawiadol am lwyth o Frasil sydd ar fin difodiant. Mae tensiwn yn cynyddu rhwng y ffermwyr ariannog a’u gweithwyr, sef y llwyth brodorol, gan arwain at wrthdaro. Nid yw’r cast o Amerindiaid wedi actio o’r blaen, ond cawn ganddynt berfformiadau gafaelgar sy’n peri i ni feddwl.

“writer-director-producer Marco Bechis’s absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly.” Time Out

(15) | Marco Bechis | Italy | Brazil | 2008 | 104’ | Cast | Awards

Marco Bechis avoids the usual clichés in his stunning portrait of a Brazilian tribe on the verge of extinction. In Mato Grosso do Sol tension is rising between the wealthy farming classes and the workers on their land – the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá. When a suicide takes place it stirs up a rebellion in which both sides are forced to face each other, clashing both ideologically and physically. The real life Amerindian cast had never acted before, yet deliver emotionally engaging and thought provoking performances, shot and directed with sympathy, flair and vigor.

“writer-director-producer Marco Bechis’s absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly.” Time Out

(15) Andrea Arnold | UK | 2009 | 123’ | Cast | Awards

Newcomer Katie Jarvis excels as Mia, a tricky 15-year-old who has just one interest in life: urban dance. But the moves she practices are moody, introverted and subdued, rather like the dancer herself. One hot summer’s day her dysfunctional mother brings home a handsome stranger called Connor (Michael Fassbender) who promises to change everything and bring love into all their lives – but are things more complicated than they seem?. Powerfully acted, laugh out loud funny and profoundly moving, Fish Tank is film making of the highest calibre.

Mae Mia yn ferch anodd, 15 mlwydd oed, sydd ag ond un peth ar ei meddwl: dawns urban. Mae pethau’n newid gyda dyfodiad Connor, sy’n addo newid popeth, ond ydyw pethau’n fwy cymhleth na’r olwg gyntaf? Mae Fish Tank yn ddoniol, ac yn drawiadol a theimladwy iawn – dyma wneud ffilmiau o’r radd flaenaf.

“With a terrific performance by debutant Katie Jarvis, this gritty Essex drama shows that director Andrea Arnold is Ken Loach’s natural successor.” The Guardian

(15) Andrea Arnold | UK | 2009 | 123’ | Cast | Awards

Newcomer Katie Jarvis excels as Mia, a tricky 15-year-old who has just one interest in life: urban dance. But the moves she practices are moody, introverted and subdued, rather like the dancer herself. One hot summer’s day her dysfunctional mother brings home a handsome stranger called Connor (Michael Fassbender) who promises to change everything and bring love into all their lives – but are things more complicated than they seem?. Powerfully acted, laugh out loud funny and profoundly moving, Fish Tank is film making of the highest calibre.

Mae Mia yn ferch anodd, 15 mlwydd oed, sydd ag ond un peth ar ei meddwl: dawns urban. Mae pethau’n newid gyda dyfodiad Connor, sy’n addo newid popeth, ond ydyw pethau’n fwy cymhleth na’r olwg gyntaf? Mae Fish Tank yn ddoniol, ac yn drawiadol a theimladwy iawn – dyma wneud ffilmiau o’r radd flaenaf.

“With a terrific performance by debutant Katie Jarvis, this gritty Essex drama shows that director Andrea Arnold is Ken Loach’s natural successor.” The Guardian

Dominique Abel | Fiona Gordon | Bruno Romy | 2008 | 77’

Boasting flashes of comedy gold, and much indebted to the great silent comedians, Rumba stars the Belgian clown Dominique Abel and his Canadian wife Fiona Gordon as a pair of gangly schoolteachers whose passion is entering Latin American dance contests. Their lives are transformed following a car crash in which he loses his memory and she loses her leg, but the result, believe it or not, is funny, inventive, extremely touching and never cruel.

Ffilm am bâr sy’n mwynhau cystadlu mewn cystadlaethau dawns Lladin America. Ond mae eu bywydau’n cael eu trawsffurfio ar ôl iddynt gael damwain car, ac mae’r canlyniad yn ddoniol, yn ddyfeisgar, yn dyner a byth yn greulon.

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’

The concluding part in the tale of the life of the French gangster. Since he was killed in a hail of police bullets in 1979, Jacques Mesrine has been elevated to the status of legend both by his detractors – to whom he was a monster – and his fans, to whom he was a misunderstood hero battling the establishment on behalf of the masses. Was he an anti-establishment icon? Or just a shameless gangster who got the ending he deserved?

Rhân olaf stori bywyd y gangster Ffrengig. Ers iddo gael ei ladd gan fwledi’r heddlu ym 1979, y mae wedi ei ddyrchafu at statws chwedlonol gan ei edmygwyr a’i ddifriwyr. Icon neu ddihiryn?

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’

The concluding part in the tale of the life of the French gangster.  Since he was killed in a hail of police bullets in 1979, Jacques Mesrine has been elevated to the status of legend both by his detractors – to whom he was a monster – and his fans, to whom he was a misunderstood hero battling the establishment on behalf of the masses.  Was he an anti-establishment icon? Or just a shameless gangster who got the ending he deserved? 

Rhân olaf stori bywyd y gangster Ffrengig. Ers iddo gael ei ladd gan fwledi’r heddlu ym 1979, y mae wedi ei ddyrchafu at statws chwedlonol gan ei edmygwyr a’i ddifriwyr. Icon neu ddihiryn?

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’| 15

The first installment of a two part biopic of France’s public enemy No 1, the pathologically violent gangster Jacques Mesrine, who claimed to have killed 43 people and staged a jailbreak from every prison he was sent to. Retracing Mesrine’s steps through his first ventures in the criminal underworld to his Bonnie and Clyde-esque escape to Canada with his lover, Mesrine: L’Instinct de Mort is an unflinching depiction of a man on the edge of psychological stability.

Rhan gyntaf o biopig am brif elyn Ffrainc, y gangster treisiol Jacques Mesrine, a honnodd ei fod wedi llofruddio 43 o bobl a dianc o bob carchar y bu ynddo. Mae’r ffilm yn bortread diysgog o ddyn ar ymyl sefydlogrwydd seicolegol.

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’|  15

The first installment of a two part biopic of France’s public enemy No 1, the pathologically violent gangster Jacques Mesrine, who claimed to have killed 43 people and staged a jailbreak from every prison he was sent to. Retracing Mesrine’s steps through his first ventures in the criminal underworld to his Bonnie and Clyde-esque escape to Canada with his lover, Mesrine: L’Instinct de Mort is an unflinching depiction of a man on the edge of psychological stability.

Rhan gyntaf o biopig am brif elyn Ffrainc, y gangster treisiol Jacques Mesrine, a honnodd ei fod wedi llofruddio 43 o bobl a dianc o bob carchar y bu ynddo.  Mae’r ffilm yn bortread diysgog o ddyn ar ymyl sefydlogrwydd seicolegol.

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Lars Von Trier | 2009 | 108’ | (18)

This controversial horror from Denmark’s provocative director stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grieving couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods where they encounter strange and terrifying occurrences. Gainsbourg won Best Actress for her performance at Cannes, where the film divided opinion, drawing both accusations of misogyny and praise for Von Trier’s exploration of the violent underbelly of the Christian story of sin and redemption. Warning! Contains scenes of explicit sexual violence.

Ffilm arswyd ddadleuol am bâr sy’n cilio i gaban yn y fforest i alaru. Yno mae pethau rhyfedd a dychrynllyd yn digwydd. Ffilm sy’n archwilio’r stori Gristnogol o bechod ac achubiaeth.

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