Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... His chaotic family, his wild stepsons and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved 30 years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all – the past.
Ken Loach (born in 1936) studied law at university, spent a brief spell in the theatre, and was recruited in 1963 by the BBC as a trainee television director. He made a huge impact with his TV play “Cathy Come Home “(1966), and his first two feature films, “Poor Cow” (1967) and “Kes” (winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1969). Loach spent the next two decades working in television and making poorly distributed feature films before “Riff-Raff” (1991) occasioned a gear shift, with a string of exceptionally powerful, award-winning cinema releases, including “Hidden Agenda”, “Raining Stones” (1993), “Land and Freedom” (1995), “My Name Is Joe” (1998), “Sweet Sixteen” (2002), “Ae Fond Kiss” (2004) and feature “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” (2006), set in 1920 revolutionary Ireland. Loach’s films have garnered numerous nominations and prizes at all the major international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Berlin, and at Britain’s BAFTA Awards.
SCAN: Looking for Eric
SCAN: Looking for Eric
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Genre
Drama
Run time
1h 55min
Genre
Drama
Run time
1h 55min
Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... His chaotic family, his wild stepsons and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved 30 years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all – the past.
Ken Loach (born in 1936) studied law at university, spent a brief spell in the theatre, and was recruited in 1963 by the BBC as a trainee television director. He made a huge impact with his TV play “Cathy Come Home “(1966), and his first two feature films, “Poor Cow” (1967) and “Kes” (winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1969). Loach spent the next two decades working in television and making poorly distributed feature films before “Riff-Raff” (1991) occasioned a gear shift, with a string of exceptionally powerful, award-winning cinema releases, including “Hidden Agenda”, “Raining Stones” (1993), “Land and Freedom” (1995), “My Name Is Joe” (1998), “Sweet Sixteen” (2002), “Ae Fond Kiss” (2004) and feature “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” (2006), set in 1920 revolutionary Ireland. Loach’s films have garnered numerous nominations and prizes at all the major international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Berlin, and at Britain’s BAFTA Awards.
Ken Loach (born in 1936) studied law at university, spent a brief spell in the theatre, and was recruited in 1963 by the BBC as a trainee television director. He made a huge impact with his TV play “Cathy Come Home “(1966), and his first two feature films, “Poor Cow” (1967) and “Kes” (winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1969). Loach spent the next two decades working in television and making poorly distributed feature films before “Riff-Raff” (1991) occasioned a gear shift, with a string of exceptionally powerful, award-winning cinema releases, including “Hidden Agenda”, “Raining Stones” (1993), “Land and Freedom” (1995), “My Name Is Joe” (1998), “Sweet Sixteen” (2002), “Ae Fond Kiss” (2004) and feature “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” (2006), set in 1920 revolutionary Ireland. Loach’s films have garnered numerous nominations and prizes at all the major international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Berlin, and at Britain’s BAFTA Awards.