Patagonia (film)
Patagonia is a 2010 drama film about Welsh and Argentine people connected to Y Wladfa, the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Argentina. The film stars several wellknown Welsh actors including Matthew Rhys, Nia Roberts and the singer Duffy. Directed by Welsh director Marc Evans the husband of Nia Roberts, it premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival onJune 2010 and had its UK premiere in Cardiff onMarch 2011.
Gwen and Rhys are a Welshspeaking couple living in Cardiff where Rhys works as a photographer and Gwen is employed as a historical interpreter at a local Welsh cultural centre. Gwen is also an aspiring actress and although she periodically attends auditions, she has yet to be hired for a theatrical part. The couples inability to conceive a child has caused increasing tension between them. Hoping to reinvigorate their relationship, the pair decide to travel together to southern Argentina where Rhys has been commissioned to photograph the historic Welsh chapels in Patagonia, a vast windswept landscape which was a destination for Welsh immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While there, they are served by their local WelshArgentine guide, Mateo.Meanwhile, an elderly WelshArgentine woman named Cerys is planning a trip to Wales to discover the farm where her mother was raised before immigrating to Patagonia during the 1920s. She decides to take along her agoraphobic young neighbour Alejandro to assist her. In Wales, he finds romance with a local girl, Sissy. ........
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