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Tuesday 8 October 2024 at 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm) at Haddenham Village Hall THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN (15) 111 mins Director: Pat Collins Starring: Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Ruth McCabe Synopsis: That They May Face the Rising Sun is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980's rural community in Ireland. It 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, rural, lakeside community in 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. Awards: Best Film at Irish Film and Television Awards Reviews: "With a sound design steeped in birdsong, and a spare piano score by Irene and Linda Buckley, here’s a film that unwraps its mysteries slowly, revealing under its quiet surface the human condition writ delicate but deep." FINANCIAL TIMES "This is a slow piece of great warmth and sympathy that invites viewers to find the beauty in birdsong, long grass and works left half-finished." ***** RADIO TIMES
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