I am not a MAN. I am CANTONA – Cantona in Looking For Eric
This going to be a massive movie for Manchester United legend, Eric Cantona. I heard that this movie will be released on June 12 and currently has been shown in Cannes as a nominate for Golden Palm Award. Do you believe it?? Eric in Cannes as an actor??
I just cant wait this movie in Malaysia cinema soon.
A recent poll suggested that Ken Loach’s 2006 film The Wind That Shook the Barley is the most popular Palme d’Or winner of the past few years. Judging by audience response, Looking for Eric, screening in competition, will be even more beloved. Unsurprisingly, perhaps: the film is an ode to the footballing genius and life-coaching skills of a Frenchman – Eric Cantona. He is the hero of another Eric (Steve Evets), a divorced postman already struggling to keep himself together and whose two teenage sons are in trouble with a local gangster.
This is a less obviously political film than some of Loach’s work. Surprisingly, he and long-term writing partner Paul Laverty say little about recent industrial disputes by postal workers. A few swipes at Rupert Murdoch for helping to inflate ticket prices is about as incendiary as it gets.
The focus instead is on comedy: the camaraderie between Eric and his self-help-obsessed colleague Meatballs; the manly advice a ghostly Cantona gives him in a bedroom still lined with posters of the temperamental Gaul. A last-minute entry into revenge-thriller territory threatens to tip the film into melodrama. Overall, this is endearing, crowd-pleasing fare.
26 May 2009 azMan the Man 0 comments
