Il mio amico Eric
Director:
Ken LoachGuión:
Paul LavertyCámara:
Barry AckroydMúsica:
George FentonReparto:
Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Matthew McNulty, Gerard Kearns, Stephanie Bishop, Stefan Gumbs, Lucy-Jo Hudson, John Henshaw, Greg Cook, Mick Ferry, Venn Tracey (más)Streaming (1)
Sinopsis(1)
Eric Bishop (Steve Evets), cartero en Manchester, atraviesa una mala época. Su mujer le ha dejado, sus dos hijastros están descontrolados y la casa era caótica aun antes de que una hormigonera apareciera en el jardín delantero; su hija le reprocha no estar a la altura y su vida sentimental es un desierto. A pesar de la amistad y el buen humor de sus compañeros carteros, que hacen todo lo posible para devolverle la sonrisa, Eric sigue hundiéndose... Una noche, Eric se dirige a su ídolo, que parece observarlo con mirada maliciosa desde el póster de la pared de su habitación y se pregunta qué haría en su lugar el mejor jugador del Manchester United. Y Eric está seguro de que Eric Cantona, el "Rey", le va a ayudar a retomar las riendas de su vida. (Alta Films)
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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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