Il mio amico Eric
Directed by:
Ken LoachScreenplay:
Paul LavertyCinematography:
Barry AckroydComposer:
George FentonCast:
Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Matthew McNulty, Gerard Kearns, Stephanie Bishop, Stefan Gumbs, Lucy-Jo Hudson, John Henshaw, Greg Cook, Mick Ferry, Venn Tracey (more)VOD (1)
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Eric (Steve Evets) the postman is not in a good place. His wife has left him, his stepsons are out of control and his house is a chaotic nightmare. In an attempt to get his bearings back, Eric turns to his hero: footballing genius, philosopher and poster boy, Eric Cantona for some life coaching. With a little help from his idol and a few of his misguided friends, what results is a series of comical events as the lost postman tries to win back the love of his life and find his way. (Icon Home Entertainment)
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I have always wondered what impresses me so much about the guy with the Brezhnev vegetation above his eyes and with his collar up. Now i get it. Ken Loach filmed an unbalanced mix of social drama, comedy and love story, and it's all led by a man with walking charisma - Eric Cantona. For me, the film amounts to 116 minutes of extraordinarily entertaining spectacle with an extraordinarily positive undertone and an extraordinarily subtle grid of a view of the English "proletariat". A passionate apotheosis of football, camaraderie and hopeless losers, headed by the god-man Cantona in a wonderfully self-parodying creation. Even though at certain points I thought that Loach just couldn't hold this all together, it always somehow worked out miraculously, and I came out of the movie theatre feeling like a citizen of a pretty normal planet and a pretty normal society. As long as the phantoms of football geniuses appear to postmen and advise them about love, then we're going to be alright. This is a warm film full of formal holes, but with perfect focus and an ending worthy of Eric.
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