Advantages: Some great acting; very funny; just hugely enjoyable Disadvantages: Cantona's sometimes inpenetrable accent; lack of realism in some parts
...a film about friendship and looking after each other. Although I really enjoyed “Looking for Eric” it’s certainly not without flaws. Cantona plays himself – or maybe the stoned Manchester postman’s version of himself – and while the brooding Frenchman needs hardly to act all to carry off the role, that French accent is sometimes quite difficult to understand and as he sometimes slips in French expressions, you couldn’t always be sure whether he was ... ...quite tedious after a while too and we plunge into the collected thoughts of a retired French footballer and you long for a bit more comedy to liven things up. I’m not a Manchester United fan, which shouldn’t matter a jot when it comes to enjoying the film, but towards the middle of the film it seemed like Eric was almost interviewing Cantona and it gave Cantona a chance to explain about the incident at Crystal Palace that saw him banned from English ...
fizzytom 31.05.2009
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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