The Penguin Lessons (12A)
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Tue 22 Apr
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Starring Steve Coogan, this poignant dramedy from Peter Cattaneo follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.
Buenos Aires, 1976: Tom arrives to begin a teaching job at a prestigious English boarding school. Argentina is fraught with political violence, and despite the headmaster’s exhortations the school keep calm and carry on, it’s shut down by the eventual military coup d’état.
Travelling to Uruguay, Tom encounters a penguin drenched in oil from a spill, and against his better judgment, rescues the bird. In doing so, he unlocks its undying loyalty, and after sneaking the flightless beast back to Argentina, begins a strange and beautiful friendship with the penguin that sees it become an unwitting agent of change for Tom and eventually, the whole school.
- Director
- Peter Cattaneo
- Cast
- Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Björn Gustafsson
- Duration
- 112 min
- Opening
- Wed 16 Apr
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- United Kingdom, Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Subtitles
- Partial English
Certificate: 12A