Cyfarwyddwr: Emlyn Williams/2000/UK/89munud/Is-deitlau
Sgan newydd o'r enillydd BAFTA Cymraeg hwn gydag isdeitlau Saesneg.
Mae’n Fawrth 1997 ac, yn dilyn 18 mlynedd o reolaeth y Torïaid, mae Prydain yn cyrraedd croesffordd wleidyddol. Mae William Davies, gwr gweddw a chwarelwr wedi ymddeol, wedi cyrraedd ei groesffordd ei hun. Ac yntau wedi bod yn sosialydd ar hyd ei oes, mae’n teimlo’n flin a chwerw tuag at lywodraeth sydd wedi ei anghofio fwy neu lai yn ei henaint.
Ar ôl cael ei berswadio gan ei blant i brynu ei dŷ cyngor yn yr 80au ffyniannus, mae’n sylwi bod y llywodraeth, a fanteisiodd gymaint ar eiddo ddeng mlynedd ynghynt, yn disgwyl iddo werthu ei eiddo nawr er mwyn talu am ei ofal pe bai’n gorfod mynd i gartref preswyl.
Wrth i William Davies gerdded o'i dŷ un bore, mae'n rhoi cynllun anobeithiol ac abswrd ar waith a fydd yn uno'r system – felly mae'n meddwl. Ond mae pethau'n mynd o chwith wrth i'r hen ddyn sylweddoli ei fod wedi gwneud camgymeriad ofnadwy. Wrth i ddiwrnod yr etholiad agosau, mae William Davies a’i deulu yn dysgu ambell wirionedd – am ei gilydd, ac am eu gwir deimladau am eu cartref.
Dyma ffilm sydd wedi’i lleoli yn y gogledd-orllewin, sy’n mynd i’r afael â thema cartref ac, yn benodol, sut mae gwahanol aelodau o un teulu yn edrych arno.
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Director: Emlyn Williams/2000/UK/89mins/Subtitles
A new scan of this Welsh language BAFTA winner with English subtitles.
It’s March 1997 and, following 18 years of Tory rule, Britain is reaching a political crossroads. William Davies, a widower and retired quarryman, has reached his own crossroads. Having been a socialist all his life, he feels angry and bitter towards a government that has more or less forgotten him in his old age.
After being persuaded by his children to buy his council house in the booming 80s, he notices that the government, which took so much advantage of property ten years earlier, expects him to sell his property now in order to pay for his care if he had to go to a residential home.
As William Davies walks from his house one morning, he puts a desperate and absurd plan into action that will one-up the system – so he thinks. But things go wrong as the old man realises that he has made a terrible mistake. As election day approaches, William Davies and his family learn a few truths - about each other, and about their true feelings about their home.
This is a film located in the north-west, which tackles the theme of home and, in particular, how different members of one family look at it.
