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Ken LoachScenario:
Paul LavertyCamera:
Barry AckroydMuziek:
George FentonActeurs:
Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Matthew McNulty, Gerard Kearns, Stephanie Bishop, Stefan Gumbs, Lucy-Jo Hudson, John Henshaw, Greg Cook, Mick Ferry, Venn Tracey (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Eric Bishop (Steve Evets), een postbode in Manchester, zit in de put. Zijn stiefzonen zijn betrokken bij allerlei duistere zaakjes, zijn dochter vindt hem een loser en zijn liefdesleven stelt niets voor. Zelfs de vriendschap en het goede humeur van zijn collega's, die er alles doen om hem op te beuren, helpen niet. Op een avond richt Eric zich tot zijn idool die hem vanaf een poster in zijn kamer aanstaart. Wat zou de grootste speler van Manchester United doen als hij in zijn schoenen zou staan? Eric is ervan overtuigd dat ‘King’ Cantona hem kan helpen zijn leven terug op de rails te krijgen. (Cinéart Nederland)
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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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Ken Loach films are always a tough watch for me. The themes resonate deeply, but the characters often leave me puzzled. In this case, it was Eric Cantona who drew me in. But then, when the down-and-out Eric, played by Steve Evets, took the stage, I found myself constantly shaking my head. The social drama aspect is executed flawlessly, and if it hadn't been for the slightly fantastical ending that felt like it belonged in a different movie, I might have given it Loach's usual three-star rating. The best scenes, however, are set in the local pub and among the fans of the two Manchester clubs.
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