Looking for Eric (2009)
Country: FR/GB/IT/BEL/SP
Technical: col 116m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, John Henshaw, Stephanie Bishop
Synopsis:
A Manchester postman's personal life begins to unravel as he faces up to the implications of abandoning his wife and baby thirty years previously and tries to cope with life in a terrace with his two grown-up stepsons, one of whom is holding a handgun for the mob. Encouraged into self-help by his workmates he begins to have visitations from his idol, footballer Eric Cantona.
Review:
Essentially a riff on Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam idea, but done for football lovers, with many a reference United supporters would appreciate. Loach enjoys plunging his flawed working class hero into extreme situations before redeeming him and revealing the salt-of-the-earth camaraderie of his workmates and fellow supporters. There are one or two weaknesses but it all works well as a crowd-pleasing addition to the oeuvre, and one in which Cantona proves an amiable accomplice and mature screen presence.
Country: FR/GB/IT/BEL/SP
Technical: col 116m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, John Henshaw, Stephanie Bishop
Synopsis:
A Manchester postman's personal life begins to unravel as he faces up to the implications of abandoning his wife and baby thirty years previously and tries to cope with life in a terrace with his two grown-up stepsons, one of whom is holding a handgun for the mob. Encouraged into self-help by his workmates he begins to have visitations from his idol, footballer Eric Cantona.
Review:
Essentially a riff on Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam idea, but done for football lovers, with many a reference United supporters would appreciate. Loach enjoys plunging his flawed working class hero into extreme situations before redeeming him and revealing the salt-of-the-earth camaraderie of his workmates and fellow supporters. There are one or two weaknesses but it all works well as a crowd-pleasing addition to the oeuvre, and one in which Cantona proves an amiable accomplice and mature screen presence.
Country: FR/GB/IT/BEL/SP
Technical: col 116m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, John Henshaw, Stephanie Bishop
Synopsis:
A Manchester postman's personal life begins to unravel as he faces up to the implications of abandoning his wife and baby thirty years previously and tries to cope with life in a terrace with his two grown-up stepsons, one of whom is holding a handgun for the mob. Encouraged into self-help by his workmates he begins to have visitations from his idol, footballer Eric Cantona.
Review:
Essentially a riff on Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam idea, but done for football lovers, with many a reference United supporters would appreciate. Loach enjoys plunging his flawed working class hero into extreme situations before redeeming him and revealing the salt-of-the-earth camaraderie of his workmates and fellow supporters. There are one or two weaknesses but it all works well as a crowd-pleasing addition to the oeuvre, and one in which Cantona proves an amiable accomplice and mature screen presence.