Who's Your favorite Welsh filmmaker?
Is it Justin Kerrigan, director of Human Traffic (1999)?
[Summary: Bad boys in Cardiff get loaded and the kids have irreverent, outrageous fun. Sex is important to the plot.]
Is it Kevin Allen, director of Twin Town (1997)?
[Summary: Bad boys in Swansea get loaded and the kids have irreverent, outrageous fun. Sex is important to the plot.]
Do you like to get together 'dros y penwthynos' with your mates, tip a few pints, while you watch, for the 200th time, director John Hefin's film about Welsh Rubgy, Grand Slam (1978)?
[Summary: Bad boys from West Wales get loaded, go to Paris, and make some irreverent, outrageous fun. Sex is important to the plot.]
Or do you like the darker side of life? Perhaps you prefer Julian Richards horror film Darklands (1996)?
[Summary; Bad boys from Barry get Satanic-religious loaded, and have some bloody, good old time pagan fun. Rowena King makes sex important here, too.]
Or maybe you prefer a more 'historical film', which exploits the Welsh Valley's dysfunctional heritage of post-industrial malaise, casual incest, petty crime, pit violence, and putting your Welsh Mam in the nuthouse? Marc Evans's House of America (1997) ticks every box for the modern Cymreig cinephile.
[Summary: Bad boys from Merthyr get loaded, get beat up, ride motorcycles, and tell the world to bugger off. Sex is important here, especially sex with your sister.]
Tell our readers your favorite Welsh film of all time, or your favorite Welsh 'auteur' filmmaker, okay?
Gyda bob hwyl i bawb, Mark
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