Il mio amico Eric

Director Ken Loach and soccer star Eric Cantona team up in an achingly etched comedy about a troubled 50ish postal worker who looks to a sports star for salvation in Manchester, England.

"Looking for Eric," the wonderfully wry new film from British director Ken Loach, is a melancholy comedy about wins and losses in soccer, life and love, and the power of a few pals, a few pints and the esoteric musings of a French footballing superstar to carry you through. Set in working-class Manchester where the accents are so thick you may long for subtitles, there are two Erics that circumstance has backed into the same contemplative corner — soccer sensation Eric Cantona playing a ruminating, newly retired version of himself, and Eric Bishop (Steve Evets), a 50ish postal worker in a wallow so deep that he sees no way out. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4345 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 21 maggio 2010