CHIDEOCK HALL FILM NIGHT
Tuesday 21st October – 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Coogan brings his signature dry irony to proceedings, but the penguin is the star in Peter Cattaneo’s film about mutual human-animal healing against the backdrop of Argentina’s 1976 military coup.
Argentina’s 1976 military coup d’état, along with the sustained period of violence and forced disappearances that it ushered in, isn’t an obvious historical backdrop for a heartwarming tale of human-animal bonding. But that’s how the timing worked out for Tom Michell, an English teacher stationed at an elite Buenos Aires private school, at the time of the turmoil: With the country in chaos and many of his colleagues in crisis, he was figuring out what to do with the Magellan penguin he had accidentally adopted on a weekend jaunt to Uruguay. His 2016 memoir of that period, “The Penguin Lessons,” was the kind of breezy read that bridges adult and juvenile tastes for animal stories; Peter Cattaneo‘s amiable film adaptation matches the book’s feathery whimsy while reaching for a little more political import.
£5.00 Entry – cash or card payments accepted which includes free tea/coffee & popcorn
wine by glass or bottle, beer, cider & choc ices on sale during interval.