Film Review - The Penguin Lessons
Steve Coogan delights in this tale of a cynical English teacher and flippered companion amid the emerging Argentinian dictatorship
I’ll admit my eyes rolled when an opening caption revealed The Penguin Lessons is “inspired by real events”. This bland statement typically encompasses films on a spectrum from some heavily massaged facts involved to almost entirely made up. In short, it switches my brain to I’ll-just-pretend-it’s-fiction mode, to…
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