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All Quiet on the Western Front

Fishguard Film Society

All Quiet on the Western Front (15)

Director/Cyfarwyddwr: Edward Berger, Czech Republic, Germany, 2022, 15, 148m, subtitles

This is the one that everyone is talking about. This anti-war epic, based on Remarque’s 1929 novel about an idealistic 19-year-old sent to the trenches, received a record-equalling fourteen BAFTA nominations and largely swept the BAFTA board with seven awards, including the big ones – Best Picture and Best Director (Edward Berger). Guy Lodge in The Observer says that ‘its harrowing battle scenes really demand a large screen’: only in a cinema can we fully appreciate the film’s power.

Dyma’r un y mae pawb yn siarad amdano! Derbyniodd yr epig gwrth-ryfel hon, sy’n seiliedig ar nofel Remarque o 1929, am grwt dibrofiad, 19 oed a anfonwyd i’r ffosydd, bedwar ar ddeg o enwebiadau BAFTA – yn cyfateb i’r nifer uchaf erioed. Ceffyl blaen y noson BAFTA, ennillodd saith gwobr, gan gynnwys y rhai mawr – Y Ffilm Gorau a’r Cyfarwyddwr Gorau (Edward Berger). Mae Guy Lodge yn The Observer yn dweud bod ‘y golygfeydd dirdynnol o frwydro wir yn galw am sgrin fawr’.  Dim ond mewn sinema y gallwn ni werthfawrogi pŵer y ffilm yn llawn.