Under Milk Wood (2015 film)
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| Directed by | Kevin Allen |
| Written by | Kevin Allen Dylan Thomas |
| Starring | Rhys Ifans |
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87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Welsh English |
Under Milk Wood (Welsh version: Dan y Wenallt) is a 2015 Welsh drama film adapted from the play by Dylan Thomas, directed by Kevin Allen, narrated by and starring Rhys Ifans. The film was selected as the British entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
The 2015 version of Under Milk Wood was filmed largely in the Pembrokeshire village of Solva during the Summer of 2014. Two versions of the film were shot, one in English and the other in Welsh (known as Dan y Wenallt) put forward for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Oscars.
The Independent in its review of the film says it "shows tremendous visual imagination in places and has plenty of ghoulishness, scabrous humour and eroticism along the way" and "doesn't hold back on depicting the grotesquerie of the Wales that Dylan Thomas evoked". Rhys Ifans' "delivery is calmer and more measured than Burton's mercurial, intensely dramatic rendition" and just about holds together the "dozens of surrealistic tableau-like scenes". It gives the film three out of five stars.
The Mirror also gave the film three out of five stars, though describing it as a "noble failure" where the director "deploys no end of visual tricks to match Thomas’s lyricism – a glaring palette, soft focusing and even a camera seemingly mounted on the back of a mouse – but the tricks distract as much as they divert".
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