The Penguin Lessons' balances stories about an adorable penguin and the atrocities of a political uprising in 1976 Argentina.
His latest, “The Penguin Lessons,” shares with his 2019 drama “Military Wives” the challenge of fashioning an uplifting, audience-friendly silk purse out of the sow’s ear of the world’s political ...
Last year there was the sweet My Penguin Friend about the true story of DinDim, a Magellanic penguin caught in an oil spill who befriended a Brazilian fisherman and taught him valuable life lessons.
One day, he is convinced by a woman he’s trying to impress to rescue a Magellanic penguin from an oil slick on a beach in Uruguay. This penguin won’t leave him alone, so he brings him back to ...
“The Penguin Lessons” does just that, thanks to the balancing act of director Peter Cattaneo — and the Magellanic penguins playing Juan Salvador (the bird is named after Jonathan Livingston ...