The Birthday (15)

Director Cyfarwyddwr Ning Jingwu
Starring Gyda
China Tsieina, 2007,
1 hour awr 31 minutes munud, subtitles isdeitlau

Change is in the air as the family gather for Dad's birthday, with their house due to be knocked down to make way for a new industrial zone. His wife worries about his illness and how they can ensure that their youngest boy, a simpleton, is looked after. The second son hires a wife for the weekend, while the oldest son is preoccupied with his own secret his grasping wife is determined to ensure they get a good share of the compensation for the house. Well scripted and well performed, this gently highlights the widening generation gap. With their increasingly westernised ideals the children have a tentative foothold in the new China, while the parents are fading victims of China's rapid change clinging onto their traditional values.

Daw teulu ynghyd i ddathlu pen-blwydd y tad ond mae newidiadau mawr ar droed wrth iddynt baratoi i weld eu cartref yn cael ei fwrw lawr. Mae tri brawd, pob un â'i stori a phethau i'w cuddio oddi wrth weddill y teulu, ffilm ddifyr am sut mae teuluoedd yn cyd-fyw.