Effi o Blaenau (Effi from Blaenau) is an adaptation of Gary Owen’s play, Iphigenia in Splott, but relocated from Cardiff to Gwynedd.<\/p>\n
Directed by Marc Evans, whose previous work includes Mr Burton, the film follows Effi as she navigates being out of work, clubbing and hangovers.<\/p>\n
A chance encounter at a nightclub with injured soldier Lee, played by actor Tom Rhys Harries, gives Effi a brief glimpse at a different life – until a difficult reality follows.<\/p>\n
Evans said the distribution of the film, at major cinemas across the UK from Friday 18 June, was “amazing”.<\/p>\n
“One of the ambitions of making a film in Welsh is that it’s not just shown to Welsh people… it travels,” he said.<\/p>\n
“One of the joys of cinema is being transported to a place that you didn’t know of before or another culture, another language.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Effi o Blaenau (Effi from Blaenau) is an adaptation of Gary Owen’s play, Iphigenia in Splott, but relocated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}