“That They May Face the Rising Sun” shows a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1980s and its cast of authentic, memorable characters.
The film is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists.
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, lakeside community in rural Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an “everywhere”.
“A lyrical, loving celebration of the everyday.” — Screen International
“An Irish masterpiece.” — Irish Independent
“A powerful and delicate portrayal of ordinary life in rural Ireland.” — Loud and Clear Reviews