Looking for Eric (2009)

Even in Ken Loach and more angry than shocked there’s always room for comedy, as also in the working class is laughing, joking with friends, we exorcise the spleen newspaper in a lively and happy. Besides this formidable carpenter stories of Ken Loach’s comedy has it right in the blood. Suffice certain sequences of ‘Riff Raff’, for ‘Raining Stones’ by ‘Paul, Mick and the others’ to confirm. This time, however Loach play it outright comedy: no longer working class with the use of comedy but a comedy with use of the working class. And the bet wins it hands down. Started from a brilliant idea that is coupled with that of ‘Play It Again Sam’ – in the film by Herbert Ross imagines film critic Allan Felix (Woody Allen) appeared the ghost of Humphrey Bogart to teach him to win the his shyness and make inroads into the heart of Diane Keaton in the film Loach’s vision is to have a small postman instead of Manchester and frizzy hair from the nerves fragile that one fine day ‘sees’ materialize in his room, his idol Cantona, with which discusses football, reflects on life, he finds the courage to face the mistakes of the past – the incomprehensible flight from his first wife, pregnant only a month. Cantona became for him more than a guru, a compass needle that between a joint and a glass of wine teaches tactics and bombastic life aphorisms in French. There is always, and God forbid, the Loach committed, that says quite openly that the deterioration of neighbourhood British disorderly houses as the lives of its tenants, unemployment and the underclass who survives a tight welfare and petty crime, but this time the desire to play prevails over all. Cantona had it not dubbed so unbearable – like an Inspector Clouseau-clone would be perfect. The postman Steve Evets is a disarming tenderness, especially when he confides to Eric on his awkwardness with his ex-wife, “I have not touch more than one person. I do not know to do. She touched me with his arm and I remained frozen. Directed by Loach as usual remains invisible, harsh, neo-realist but the comedy is a delightful hymn to the solidarity that puts everyone in agreement. And when you exit the cinema is sharing the same excitement that United fans felt when the ‘roi’ Eric drunk with all his anarchic and prodigious football.