Oed Yr Addewid (Do Not Go Gentle)

Hyd y ffilm: 89 munud

‍Iaith: chysylltiadau

‍Tystysgrif: 15

Gan y Cyfarwyddwr o Gymru, Emlyn Williams, mae Oed yr Addewid wedi’i gosod yn 1997, gyda Phrydain yn cyrraedd trothwy gwleidyddol yn dilyn 18 mlynedd o reolaeth y Llywodraeth Geidwadol. Mae’r ffilm yn serennu rhai o fawrion byd actio Cymru, Stewart Jones, Arwel Gruffydd, Gwenno Elis Hodgkins a Gwyn Vaughan.

Mae hi’n fis Mawrth 1997 ac, yn dilyn 18 mlynedd dan reolaeth y Torïaid, mae Prydain ar drobwynt gwleidyddol. Mae’r weddw William Davies, chwarelwr sydd wedi ymddeol, yn cyrraedd trobwynt hefyd. Yn sosialydd ar hyd ei oes, mae’n teimlo’n ddig ac yn chwerw tuag at lywodraeth sydd wedi anghofio amdano yn ei henaint.

Ar ôl prynu ei dŷ cyngor yn yr 80au llewyrchus, dan berswâd ei blant, mae e’n sylwi bod y llywodraeth, a gymerodd fanteisiodd yn fawr o dai ddegawd yn gynharach, bellach yn disgwyl iddo werthu ei gartref er mwyn talu am ei ofal, petai e’n mynd i gartref preswyl.

Wrth i William Davies gerdded o’i dŷ un bore, mae e’n rhoi cynllun absẃrd a phenboeth ar waith. Cynllun a fydd yn dwyn mantais oddi ar y system – neu dyna mae e’n ei gredu. Ond mae pethau’n mynd o chwith wrth i’r hen ddyn sylweddoli ei fod wedi gwneud camgymeriad mawr. Wrth i’r etholiad cyffredinol agosáu, mae William Davies a’i deulu yn dysgu ambell i wirionedd – am ei gilydd ac am eu teimladau go iawn tuag at eu cartref.

Dyma ffilm a leolir yng ngogledd orllewin Cymru, sy’n mynd i’r afael â thema’r cartref, ac yn benodol, sut mae aelodau gwahanol un teulu’n gweld y cartref.

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Running time: 89 minutes

‍Language: Welsh, with English subtitles

‍Certificate: 15

From Welsh Director Emlyn Williams, Oed yr Addewid is set in 1997, as Britain reaches a political crossroads following 18 years of Conservative Government rule. The film stars Welsh acting giants, Stewart Jones, Arwel Gruffydd, Gwenno Elis Hodgkins and Gwyn Vaughan.

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.

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