Theatr Mwldan Film Society / Cymdeithas Ffilm Theatr Mwldan

Cert 15

Thomas McCarthy | USA | 2007 | 106′

In this gem of film from Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent), Richard Jenkins gives a brilliantly sustained performance that gives depth, resonance and spiritual transcendence. Jenkins plays a mid-50ish Connecticut professor, a widower who goes through the paces of academic life without enthusiasm or joy, and has pretty much withdrawn from life. When he finds two illegal aliens – a Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend – in his Manhattan condo, he slowly becomes involved in their lives and takes us with him on a splendid emotional odyssey. The film works on several levels, and stands out as a wistful meditation on the psychological cost of 9/11. It’s also not afraid to show us, in a subtle, skillful and totally original way, an America that’s been increasingly dehumanized and vastly diminished by its new fear of the outside world.

Yn y ffilm arbennig hon, mae Richard Jenkins yn rhoi perfformiad penigamp fel athro a gweddw yn ei 50au o Gonneticut, sydd wedi colli blas ar waith ac ar fywyd. Mae’n darganfod dau fewnfudwr anghyfreithlon – cerddor o Syria a’i gariad o Senegal – yn ei fflat yn Manhattan, ac yn raddol mae’n dechrau ymwneud â’u bywydau. Ffilm fedrus sy’n dangos gwedd newydd ar America wedi 9/11.

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