Join the Rotary Club of Ottawa-Stittsville for their International Film Series In collaboration with the Film Circuit of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Please contact Charles Mossman by email at (charcz@yahoo.com) for the 4:00pm passes, or Sandra Burt by email at (sburt@uwaterloo.ca) for the 7:00pm passes.
December 15: The Penguin Lessons, Spain, UK, English/Spanish (subtitles), 110 minutes.
This gem comes to us from the director of The Full Monty, and stars Steve Coogan as Michell, a self- centred Englishman who is hired to teach at a prestigious English boarding school in Buenos Aires. The film is loosely based on true events that occurred during a tumultuous time in Argentinian history. When a coup d’état shuts down the school, Michell travels to Uruguay to have a holiday, and ends up returning to the school with an emperor penguin in tow, rescued from an oil spill. The film focuses on the developing relationship among Michell, his students, and the penguin. We are witnesses to Michell’s personal and political awakening.