That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023)

Directed by Pat Collins

With Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy

Not Rated, 111 minutes

Based on internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern's award-winning novel of the same name, "That They May Face the Rising Sun" is set in a 1980s rural community in Ireland and, like the novel, is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity, and life itself. Joe and Kate Ruttledge (Barry Ward and Anna Bederke, respectively) return from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play, and the passing seasons as their enclosed world becomes everything.