‘Learning to Breathe Under Water’ Review: A Shark in the Roof Covers a Hole in the Heart in an Empathetic Crowdpleaser

According to Variety, 'Learning to Breathe Under Water' takes the Headington Shark—a striking twenty-five-foot fiberglass sculpture piercing through a suburban Oxford rooftop—as its touchstone. This real local landmark becomes a vehicle for exploring emotional depth and vulnerability. Variety calls it an empathetic crowdpleaser, a story about feeling out of place in an ordinary world that finds unexpected resonance in an image of a shark through a roof.

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