Monday, October 28, 2024

Review of That We May Face The Rising Sun

Well that's nearly two hours of my life that I'm not getting back. Slow, beautiful but very dull Irish film about a handsome young Irish writer and his beautiful European (French? German? Impossible to say and not explained in the narrative) living in a remote Irish village as sometime farmers, though still pursuing their more urban careers - in the absence of internet or even telephones. 

There's an awful lot of not much happening, apart from some knowing smiles between the couple, and drinking booze and tea between the couple and the other villagers. 

I fell asleep for at least half an hour but I didn't seem to have missed anything.

Oddly the man character reminded me of the man from the Oxo advert series from the 1970s, which I didn't even know I had remembered. Looking again it turns out to have been a false memory, there's little resemblance. Maybe I was thinking of the Tom character from 1970s sitcom The Good Life, where the resemblance is really very strong.

Watched at the Lansdown Film Club.

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