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ken loach' s looking for eric, starring eric cantona, is the veteran director' s sunniest film to date .
looking for eric is a movie starring steve evets, eric cantona, and stephanie bishop. eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical eric cantona .
loach strains hard for fun in looking for eric, but he' s like a jokester who doesn' t know how to tell a joke .
a conventional and entirely dishonest turn of events... undermine [ s ] everything that has come before in looking for eric .
lighter than the usual ken loach feature, looking for eric marks a departure of sorts for the solemn director, but ultimately, it' s a minor work .
it was this legendary talismanic status that film director ken loach has made the focus of his latest movie, looking for eric, starring, and partly inspired by, cantona himself .
eric cantona made football an art, a philosophy, something beautiful. but can he put in a great performance in a movie? the united legend stars in the new ken loach film looking for eric which has its uk premiere in manchester (june 1) .
trailer - looking for eric genre: sport / comedy regie / directed by: ken loach darsteller / cast: john henshaw, stephanie bishop, eric cantona, gerard kearns and smug roberts kinostart deutschland: 5. november 2009 kinostart usa: offizielle filmsite: urltoken used with authorization
“the reception here has been awesome. i’m looking forward to building a relationship with the fan base. ”
the uk premiere of eric cantona’s new documentary “looking for rio” takes place at amnesty international’s football film festival (hackney picturehouse, 6th - 8th june). the festival is held in partnership with the blizzard and picturehouse cinemas .
eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical eric cantona .
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ryan returns the next day, and eric demands to know what' s going on. ryan is looking after the gun for zac, and can' t go to the police because zac' s heavies have threatened to set their dogs on jess. eric goes to see zac, but is humiliated by his dobermann .
now comes ken loach' s looking for eric, about a manchester postman' s imaginary relationship with the maverick manchester united centre forward, who retired in 1997 and who has since turned to painting, playing the trumpet, philosophy, acting and film producing .
no prior knowledge of either english soccer or one of its greatest stars of the ’90s, french - born eric cantona, is necessary to go “looking for eric. ” but helmer ken loach and writer paul laverty’s ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: three movies — boilerplate, socially aware loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around [ … ]
the second eric of the film is none other than the legendary ex manchester united player eric cantona, who basically plays himself. he is a ghost - like figure, who is a figment of eric the postal worker' s imagination .
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the first exchange, which followed a rapturous welcome, wonderfully set the tone for the next 60 minutes. why do you think so many people are here and that you are still so popular, eric? there was a brief pause before cantona looked up and replied :
because i am not a man. i am cantona .
the line was straight out of looking for eric and engendered the sort of reaction that used to be reserved for one of his exquisite touches at old trafford .
looking for eric is also a film about football and about obsession. written by long - time collaborator paul laverty, it follows postal worker eric bishop (steve evets) as his life spirals out of control. his second wife has left him, and his teenage stepsons (one of whom, interestingly uncommented on, is black) are both sullen and wild .
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looking for eric
is the last film i would have expected from ken loach, the great british director of films about working class lives. his strength is social realism and a critique of the limited options within a class system. he works close to the earth and to his characters .
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ken loach has always been my favourite director of british films, you can honestly say that his movies are like no other. they are always so gritty, so realistic and brilliantly portray normal everyday people and the problems in which they experience -' looking for eric' is no exception. the film is about marijuana smoking postman eric bishop (steve evets) whose hero is the international footballer eric cantona. tied down by many personal and family problems (looking after his granddaughter is bringing him back into contact with his ex girlfriend who he parted with on bad terms and his stepson is hiding a gun for a drugs baron), bishop forms an imaginary relationship with cantona who gives him advice on how the handle all of the drama taking place around him. but it isn' t all doom and gloom, this film is funny from the beginning and like most loach' s films, there is a strong sense of humanity, friendship, loyalty and hope throughout.' looking for eric' is yet another great film from a great filmmaker .
looking for eric is in fact the story of two erics. the first is a depressed, middle - aged postal worker and manchester united football fan (played by steve evets). eric' s life is disintegrating in front of his eyes. he is alone and struggling to cope with life, his stepsons add to his worries. they are drifting into serious crime and use his home as a place to store their stolen goods and a place for their friends to doss out .
he had spent the past week making appearances up and down the country in the lead - up to friday' s release of looking for eric – the ken loach - directed film in which cantona plays himself – but this was an entirely different gig. twerton park was not so much the last stop on the promotional tour, but more an opportunity for loach to give those connected with the club he has followed since 1974 a day they would cherish for the rest of their lives .
ken loach’s bittersweet comedy drama looking for eric witnesses the veteran british director undertaking one of his first forays into magic realism. the film blends enchanting and refreshing fantasy - themed whimsicality with an irresistible core of warmth and sweetness that loach unveils in the hard - scrabble working - class life that occupies center stage... . read more
one of the best ken loach' s films. a perfect mix of comedy and drama, passion for football and social commitment, fantasy and realism. looking for eric sound genuine because it tells a story where football represents a distraction from the bleak and miserable reality and helps people carry on, but also because erica cantona is not just a football star, but embodies the popular side of this sport, who was born from people and for the people, and cannot just live in a golden cage. here more than ever loach shows his ability for storytelling, being compelling and entertaining at the same time, because his rebellion to the system can' t be imagined without a reasonable share of irony. looking for eric is, therefore, a story that everyone can identify with or, saying it with the main character' s words, to put oneself in his blue suede shoes ...
credits include footage of the press conference where eric cantona gives his famous
seagulls
quote .
eric is convinced, king cantona can help him get a grip on his life once more .
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to win back the love of his life, eric' s going to need a little training .
“for us, the next step is letting people know about my culinary talent, ” she says. “i’m starting a web - based identity for myself—katie o’s food carnival—because my clients have been asking for it and you have to listen to that. ”
looking for eric is a gritty and realistic comedy - drama, which doesn' t sacrifice laughter in - spite of all the glumness. eric bishop is a typical miserable northener on the surface, and we follow him through his juggling act of a life, as he' s helped along by eric cantona. it' s full of interesting and well devoloped characters, and the acting is really quite striking. even eric cantana is good, proving that sports stars can act (well he is playing himself). throw a happy ending into the mix, and you have a brilliant story of a man overcoming his troubles, with the help of friends .
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looking for rio is an exploration of football and politics in brazil in the run up to the world cup, and the film will be headlining amnesty international’s sidelines film festival, a weekend of documentaries, discussion, and debate with a football and human rights theme .
with acting now his priority, cantona no longer follows football closely but he knows enough about the game to realise that much has changed since he retired and not necessarily for the better. one of the subjects he feels most ­passionate about is the soaring cost of tickets, an issue that loach tackles in looking for eric through cantona' s co - star, steve evets, who plays eric bishop, a postman who has switched his allegiances from manchester united to fc united, the club formed by fans disillusioned with the glazer' s takeover at old trafford .
there was a moment! surprise is the hardest thing to act, and steve (evets) had no idea he was in the film. on the day… eric cantona hid behind a black drape that we' d put round the camera. steve was looking towards the life - size cantona poster and eric slipped out and stood behind him, and spoke. the first take it didn' t quite work. but there was still surprise enough for the second take .
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after postman eric bishop crashes his car driving the wrong way round a roundabout, his friends at the sorting office try to cheer him up. but eric has too many things on his mind, especially problems with sons ryan and jess. eric keeps a life - size poster of former manchester united centre - forward eric cantona on the wall and asks its advice. one day, he finds the real cantona standing behind him .
during a family reunion with lily and sam, eric' s house is raided by armed police and everyone is arrested. a furious lily refuses to speak to eric, though ryan is relieved to find that he' s hidden the gun in a chicken. video footage of eric' s humiliation is posted on youtube .
eyebrows were raised when the premise behind looking for eric was first announced to the film trade press. a ghostly buddy movie co - starring a global football celebrity as himself, directed by ken loach? clearly loach' s palme d' or for the wind that shakes the barley (2006) must have gone to his head. and yet the director' s hand is instantly recognisable - indeed, in many respects the film is a compilation of his favourite subjects .
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no prior knowledge of either english soccer or one of its greatest stars of the ’90s, french - born eric cantona, is necessary to go “looking for eric. ” but helmer ken loach and writer paul laverty’s ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: three movies — boilerplate, socially aware loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who’s given a second chance to sort out his life. as in many of laverty’s scripts, problems of overall tone and character development aren’t solved by loach’s easygoing direction, though when it works, “eric” has many incidental pleasures .
the film - shot entirely on location in manchester - tells the story of eric bishop, a football - mad postman whose life is in a tailspin until his idol eric cantona appears in his imagination to give him back his confidence .
eric tells cantona about meeting lily in 1979, at a 1950s rock' n' roll dance contest. they had a daughter, sam, but eric left them, and has felt intense guilt ever since. the roundabout incident was caused by confusion after he agreed to pick up sam' s baby daughter daisy from lily, and he couldn' t face meeting her. cantona orders eric to shave and go to see her. eric meets lily and apologises .
looking for eric
is inexplicable. it has elements of a loach social drama, which might have been better used as the entire story. cantota is nice enough, but so what? if there seem to be any comic possibilities in the story, loach doesn' t find them. if your world doesn' t revolve around eric cantota, he' ll come over as just a nice enough guy, no big deal. and can the great ken loach actually have fallen prey to the obligatory action in the third act virus ?
given that this is a loach movie, cantona’s appearance is handled in an entirely natural way, sans vfx, though it’s economically made clear that the onetime soccer star is a figment of eric’s dopey imagination. as the two get to know each other, the ooh - la - la frenchman starts giving advice to eric on how to get back with lily, his first, teenage love (shown in flashbacks) for whom eric has never lost his devotion .
eric cantona, pictured here at cannes, more recently popped up at bath city fc. photograph: dominic lipinski / pa
eric bishop, a middle - aged postman working for the manchester sorting office, is going through a dreadful crisis. for starters, his second life companion has not resurfaced although she was released from prison a few months ago. he is left alone with two stepsons to look after, which is no bed of roses since the two teens disrespect him and keep disobeying him. to make matters worse, ryan, the older boy, fascinated by zac, a dangerous gangster, has accepted to hide his gun in eric' s house. on the other hand, he is asked by sam, his student daughter who has a newborn baby, to get back in touch with lily, his separated wife. now, eric left her not long after she gave back to their daughter. as a result eric panics... having lost all his bearings, eric bishop soliloquizes face to the poster of his idol, another eric, french footballer eric cantona, when the latter appears just like the genie out of aladdin' s lamp. through a series of aphorisms peculiar to him, the footballer - philosopher will help remorse - ridden desperate eric bishop to get by .
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and if the film achieves its only half - believable denouement through the death of loach’s art rather than of one of his characters this time around, then that, too, seems tonally appropriate; we sense that neither eric or their various costars can instruct us in any way through martyrdom, so their unlikely perseverance seems deserved—if not necessarily hard - earned. much like the signature kinesthetics of cantona, the unmistakable, and undeniably perceptive, aesthetics of loach’s best proletariat odes are on display in looking for eric —even if those skills appear to be working toward an unsatisfying goal .
( 2009), directed by ken loach, follows the redemption story of middle - aged and initially washed - up eric bishop. we meet eric in the midst of an existential crisis as his unresolved feelings about his life bubble up and disturb his impotent stupor. he conjures up eric “the king” cantona, legendary footballer, as a coping mechanism — a life coach of sorts .
in looking for eric, loach, working with regular photographer barry ackroyd, stays true to his usual realist vision of working britain, yet also manages to make one of his least typical films in that for much of its first hour, it plays as a comedy. steve evets gives a gruff but tender performance as eric bishop, the struggling postie whose life has gradually fallen apart. living with two stoned stepsons, he can' t summon the courage to reconnect with his ex - wife, lily. his workmates try to cheer him up with jokes and, in one of the funniest scenes of loach' s oeuvre, buoy him with a male self - help group .
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the recent world cup in south africa brought everyone' s attention to soccer (which most of the world calls football), but movies such as
bend it like beckham
and
looking for eric
show why we should pay more attention to it. the fall' s steve evets plays down - on - his - luck postman eric bishop, who in his mind gets advice from footballer eric cantona (playing himself). through this, eric reconnects with his family. but when his son gets involved with a group of thugs, eric has to take charge. this is only the third ken loach film that i' ve seen (the others were
poor cow
and
kes
). as i understand it, loach usually focuses on political topics in his movies. while this one isn' t really political, it' s still one that i strongly recommend. everything about it feels so realistic. i' d never even heard of eric cantona before this. without a doubt, the best scene in the movie is the home invasion towards the end .
eric bishop, a middle - aged postman working for the manchester sorting office, is going through a dreadful crisis. for starters, his second life companion has not resurfaced although she was released from prison a few months ago. he is left alone with two stepsons to look after, which is no bed of roses since the two teens disrespect him and keep disobeying him. to make matters worse, ryan, the older boy, fascinated by zac, a dangerous gangster, has accepted to hide his gun in eric' s house. on the other hand, he is asked by sam, his student daughter who has a newborn baby, to get back in touch with lily, his separated wife. now, eric left her not long after she gave back to their daughter. as a result eric panics... having lost all his bearings, eric bishop soliloquizes face to the poster of his idol, another eric, french footballer eric cantona, when the latter appears just like the genie out of aladdin' s lamp. through a series of aphorisms peculiar to him, the footballer - philosopher ...
ken loach' s latest is an uplifting, entertaining and amusing socio - drama featuring a match - winning performance from eric cantona .
eric cantona will be in conversation at the event and post - screening drinks (or more specifically, caipirinhas) will be served .
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it may not have the subtlety of nick hornby' s fan' s - eye novel fever pitch, nor the nostalgic tug of philip saville' s lovely 1983 film those glory glory days in which two young female spurs fans meet danny blanchflower, but looking for eric is likely to be as popular a film as loach has made since he began working in 1964. they may even have to adjust the old cliché: it only takes 45 years to score a goal, ken .
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eric is unable to get through to ryan and jess, and cantona tells him that it' s because he' s a poor disciplinarian. eric reminisces about cantona' s great goals, but cantona says his proudest moment was a pass to goalscorer denis irwin against spurs. he tells eric that if he always plays safe, he will never take any risks. during his nine - month ban for assaulting a fan, cantona learned the trumpet, and plays a shaky rendition of' la marseillaise' over the manchester rooftops .
eric and his postman friends watch the match in the pub. one, spleen, is an outspoken fc united member, and he argues about his motives with fans who have stayed loyal to manchester united. returning home, eric sees ryan being beaten up by local gangster zac .
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lily brings daisy around to eric' s house, but cries after seeing that he' s kept the picasso card. eric hands the baby to an alarmed jess and rushes after her. she reminds him that he walked out on her and sam and refuses to speak to him .
his work colleagues (also avid manchester united fans), led by portly meatballs (john henshaw, good), try to cheer him up. but then one night, while getting high in his bedroom, eric is “visited” by another eric, his all - time idol cantona .
eric needs help. he gets it partly from his mates at work, among them the terrifically named spleen (justin moorhouse), smug (smug roberts) and meatballs (john henshaw). partly from a spliff (unexpectedly for a director whose values were defined long before the 1960s, the drugs definitely do work in this film). most of all, his shot at redemption comes from eric cantona .
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for five decades now ken loach has been such a brilliant scourge of class oppression that’s he almost become a victim of his success. for unsympathetic critics, he’s “red ken”, an earnest worry - wart more committed to socialism than to entertainment .
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eric bishop (steve evets) is a 50 something postman who’s life has taken a serious downturn. he is plagued with regrets of his past, in abandoning his first wife and newborn baby and now struggling to manage his teenage sons from his second marriage. one of his outlets for fun is following his beloved football team manchester utd and it’s from the past years of this succesful team that he is given some life coaching and guidance from none other than eric cantona, the french footballing sensation who is also famous for his philosophical ramblings .
eric is the typical disheartened underdog, but he eventually develops a game plan (after an endearingly cheesy training montage) to turn his life around .
postman eric bishop' s life is out of control. his stepsons are in trouble with the law, his house is a mess and he is about to lose the love of his life forever. but then eric cantona appears in his bedroom and starts to turn his life around ...
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apologies for the pun, but this is a film of two halves. the second takes the viewer into much darker territory. without spoiling the story, the film switches from life - affirming comedy to a near catastrophe for eric and his family. it' s an emotional rollercoaster of a movie. it captures the contradictions of working class life and has within it lots of infectious, subtle moments .
this eventually leads to a crowd - pleasing finale involving eric, meatballs and the whole gang of manchester united supporters that stresses a favorite loach theme of the collective being stronger than the individual. again, the bit is enjoyable but further jars the pic’s search for an overarching tone .
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looking for eric treats postmen such as eric bishop with the same sympathy as the builders in riff - raff (1991) and the railwaymen in the navigators (2001). after bishop comes close to a total breakdown, his colleagues stage a full - blown therapy session that ranks alongside the football match in kes (1969) as the funniest scene in any ken loach film. an impassioned pub argument about american financial exploitation of manchester united recalls the collective ownership debate in land and freedom (1995), and the way that naïve teenagers are exploited by ruthless gangsters echoes sweet sixteen (2002), while bishop himself resembles bob in raining stones (1993): an essentially good man out of his depth .
each day is an uphill struggle for eric; he is alone in every sense. he only survives because of the friendship and support he receives from his workmates and the love that is reignited in him when he takes his grandchild round to see his first wife lily (stephanie bishop) .
“since some of the paperwork was already in progress for the venue, it only took a couple of months to get all the contracts in order and closed, ” says o’reilly. she notes that this wan’t the typical experience: deals for similar spaces normally take longer .
cantona tells eric that the noblest vengeance is forgiveness. lily rings him immediately afterwards and asks to meet him in a pub. during a long heart - to - heart, eric confesses that he had a panic attack during sam' s christening. lily tells him that she thought he' d gone off her. sam is surprised to find her parents having a friendly chat. back at eric' s house, cantona orders him to start a fitness regime with him as his personal trainer .
eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... his chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don' t help, but it is eric' s own secret that drives him to the brink. can he face lily, the woman he once loved? despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, eric continues to sink. in desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to challenge eric to journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. as a certain frenchman says ,
he who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six .
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the outlines of eric' s life are grim. the film begins after he survives a car crash, and involves his two worthless grown sons, ryan and jess, and his lingering feelings for his estranged wife, lily (stephanie bishop), who has refused to speak to him in seven years .
no subject was off - limits and as ­cantona sat for the best part of an hour, without once looking at his watch, ­candidly discussing everything from the part his father played in his infamous kung‑fu kick at selhurst park to his ambition of managing manchester united and the exorbitant ticket prices that have ­hammered a nail into the coffin of the working - class supporter, it was tempting to wonder how cristiano ronaldo would handle a similar engagement .
eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... his chaotic family, his wild stepsons and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, bu ...
when eric walks in a room you really know he' s there. it' s true of very few people but he' s a man with considerable charisma and a magnetism. actors talk about natural projection. . but eric did that on a football field – he communicated to 70, 000 people. that' s an extraordinary natural ability .
after discovering a stolen cement mixer in front of his house, eric finds ryan and his friends going to see manchester united versus barcelona, and travelling in a glossy black mercedes .
despite the joyful friendship and the good humor of his postal worker colleagues, who do everything to bring a smile back to his face, eric is in a state of gloom .
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douglas gordon and philippe parreno' s zidane - a tightly focused study of the former french captain playing a match for real madrid - remains, for me, the best work about actually playing the game. director emir kusturica' s documentary maradona is more about the iconography of the argentinian star .
this movie really does live up to its billing as a feel good movie. it is original, funny, touching and kept my attention from start to finish and with the added bonus of having eric cantona, great for all football fans and fans of eric as an actor. the only word of caution i would give is that there is a huge amount of swearing in it, mostly the f word, so you might want to be careful not to watch it with people who do not like swearing .
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wasted food is also a big topic of conversation for the staff, which occasionally has to create dishes when they’re not certain how much will be consumed .
amusing though cantona' s appearances usually are (his wobbly trumpet performance of' la marseillaise' is a particular highlight), he turns serious when he tells bishop that his career would have got nowhere without dedicated teamwork. this theme, a loach perennial, is threaded throughout the film until a climax so visually memorable as to be almost surreal. looking for eric was widely tipped to become loach' s first genuine box - office hit since kes, but in the event the film performed disappointingly - partly, box - office receipts implied, because of the intense hostility to manchester united in a number of british cities. clearly, teamwork can only stretch so far .
this whole thing has been a dream job. i' m a jobbing actor me. have been for years. but it doesn' t matter because i' ve worked with ken now, it' s an ambition fulfilled. eric cantona' s in it, i' ve got the lead role... i mean what actor wouldn' t die for that job? it' s on my cv and if i never work again, this has been an absolute adventure .
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his two stepsons excel in little scams of all kinds, his daughter reproaches him for not being up to scratch, and his sentimental life is a desert .
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loach, known for his social realism style of directing, cast a relatively unknown actor steve evets from salford in his first lead role alongside cantona who plays himself .
director: ken loach. screenplay: paul laverty. starring: steve evets, eric cantona, stephanie bishop, gerard kearns, stefan gumbs, lucy - jo hudson, matthew mcnulty, john henshaw .
synopsis in barcelona, the regional capital of catalonia and the cradle of catalan nationalism, two clubs have competed for over a century. since their foundation, each reflects a differing conception of catalan identity. the independence - orientated fc barcelona and the apolitical espanyol. here, as in manchester and milan, people are born on one side or the other, destined to become culès, barça supporters or perico, espanyol fans. for 100 years, this sporting rivalry has expressed all the tensions of catalan history, its geopolitics fall during the franco dictatorship, its distinct identity and the release of a catalanism suppressed for so many years. in over a century of cohabitation, the two clubs and their supporters, have developed their own codes, their own legends, and have created their myths, heroes, alternating periods at the top for barca and painful disqualifications for espanyol often related to the intrusion of politics. in this documentary, eric cantona plunges us into the story of two rival identities, a sport, a city, and a country .
determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home .
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it also became clear there was more where that came from. what' s the most difficult: playing football or acting in films ?
for me ,
said cantona, with a shrug of the shoulders ,
everything is easy .
for the second time in 60 ­seconds the room erupted and it was easy to ­imagine that if cantona had got up from his seat and left at that point, no one would have complained that the £20 they had spent on a ticket did not represent value for money .
while cantona retains a great deal of respect for ferguson, there is a former team - mate at old trafford whom he also holds in high esteem .
ryan giggs is 35 but still has the passion for the game. i admire this kind of player. i don' t admire every player in the world who plays football until 35 years old because some of them play and are not passionate anymore. but when you see giggs, every­body knows that he still has the fight and ­passion for the game .
i was really happy when i received an invitation to a screening of director ken loach' s new film, looking for eric. and i couldn' t believe my luck when i was offered the chance to interview ken loach and scriptwriter paul laverty. but i have to admit that i was very apprehensive about talking to loach. i haven' t spoken to him since the split in respect. in the break - up things were said by both sides that probably shouldn' t have been. what was i supposed to say if i didn' t like the film? luckily i didn' t have to confront that problem. the film is top drawer, up there with loach' s very best: land and freedom, and kes .
a delightful and amazingly engaging tragicomedy that blends sadness, tenderness and a lot of humor to deliver this heart - warming story that benefits from some amazing performances - especially by a hilarious eric cantona at his most philosophical .
cantona advises eric that it' s impossible to outrun people faster than himself, and that he should exploit zac' s fears. eric hatches a plot with his friends to go round en masse to zac' s house, disguised in cantona masks, smash up his mercedes, television and furniture, spray him and his associates with red paint and threaten to post footage on youtube. finally, meatball destroys the gun with a sledgehammer .
eric tells cantona more about his life. he still keeps a postcard of a picasso peace dove, sent by lily shortly after his departure. he wants to write to her, but can' t articulate his feelings .
deciding to spring - clean his life, eric throws out lots of junk. but when he finds a gun in ryan' s room, he realises that his son is in serious trouble. ryan comes home, the two fight, and ryan goes off with the gun. eric and jess borrow fellow postman meatball' s car and try to find him. they see the aftermath of a nightclub shooting, but no sign of ryan .
eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... his chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don t help, but it is eric s own secret that drives him to the brink. can he face lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, eric continues to sink. in desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all the past. as the chinese, and one frenchman, say, he who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six. features the full screenplay, including extra scenes, sixteen pages of colour photographs, plus introductions from paul laverty, ken loach, eric cantona and production notes from the cast and crew .
one night, having stolen some of his stepson' s spliff, eric gets his cantona visitation, resulting in more comedy as the frenchman dispenses life - enhancing aphorisms in heavily accented english .
i' m still getting over the bloody seagulls ,
retorts the flustered bishop, referring to cantona' s famous pronouncement following his nine - month ban for kung - fu kicking a crystal palace fan in 1995 .
into this sad man' s life steps cantota, a superstar in all the soccer - playing world, who becomes his confidante and confessor. cantota, it must be said, is quite successful in his role: warm, persuasive, a source of common sense. he diagnoses eric' s problem: he should get back together with lily. this is also the plan of sam (lucy - jo hudson), eric and lily' s grown daughter .
eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... his chaotic family, his wild stepsons and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. can he face lily, the woman he once loved 30 years ago? despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, eric continues to sink. in desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. as the chinese, and one frenchman, say :
he who is afraid to throw the dice will never throw a six .
today cantona remains just as philosophical about life. at the cannes film festival he laughed at reporters who asked about his career saying ,
i stopped football at 30 because i lost my passion for it. so long as i feel a great passion for the cinema, i' ll continue to shoot films. and if i get bored i will move on and do something else .
long synopsis: eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers… his chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. can he face lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, eric continues to sink. in desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. as the chinese, and one frenchman, say, “he who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six. ”
eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers. his chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. can he face lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, eric continues to sink. in desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from strange parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all – the past. as the chinese, and one frenchman, say,' he who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six'. urltoken
here now is a most unexpected comedy appealing to world soccer fans, and based on a common enough daydream: a man' s sports hero appears in his life and carries on friendly conversations with him. i call it a fantasy but loach approaches it as if it were quite real. he uses eric cantona, a famed star of manchester united, and places him right there in the room with eric bishop (steve evets) a manchester postal worker badly in need of encouragement .
' oo ah cantona!' they still sing his name at old trafford and he hasn’t played there for over a decade. it' s not just in honour of his sublime talent on the pitch .
with lines like that, it is ­little wonder that loach enjoyed working with ­cantona so much on set. the film director thanked the frenchman afterwards and another standing ovation for king eric ­followed. bath city were around £12, 000 richer and randall' s would never feel the same again. cantona, however, was not quite finished. moments later he was holding aloft a pink ticket with no62 on it. the bottle of wine must have tasted fantastic.
looking for eric is a 2009 british-french film about the escape from the trials of modern life that football and its heroes can bring for its fans . it was written by screen writer paul laverty and directed by the english director ken loach . the film 's cast includes the former professional footballer eric cantona and the former bass guitarist with the fall , steve evets . loach said of the film , " we wanted to deflate the idea of celebrities as more than human . and we wanted to make a film that was enjoying the idea of what you and i would call solidarity , but what others would call support for your friends really , and the old idea that we are stronger as a team than we are as individuals . " 
looking for eric is a 2009 british-french film about the escape from the trials of modern life that football and its heroes can bring for its fans. it was written by screen writer paul laverty and directed by the english director ken loach. the film's cast includes the former professional footballer eric cantona and the former bass guitarist with the fall, steve evets. loach said of the film, " we wanted to deflate the idea of celebrities as more than human. and we wanted to make a film that was enjoying the idea of what you and i would call solidarity, but what others would call support for your friends really, and the old idea that we are stronger as a team than we are as individuals. "
looking for eric is a 2009 british-french film about the escape from the trials of modern life that football and its heroes can bring for its fans. it was written by screen writer paul laverty and directed by the english director ken loach. the film's cast includes the former professional footballer eric cantona and the former bass guitarist with the fall, steve evets. loach said of the film, " we wanted to deflate the idea of celebrities as more than human. and we wanted to make a film that was enjoying the idea of what you and i would call solidarity, but what others would call support for your friends really, and the old idea that we are stronger as a team than we are as individuals. "