DVD: Looking for Eric (15)

Ken Loach (116 mins)

It might not have won at Cannes this year, but no one would have been too surprised if it had.

Looking for Eric represents the first time a feature film by the football-loving Ken Loach has touched on the sport since Brian Glover's celebrated cameo as the games teacher in Kes 40 years ago, but it's not really about football at all.</p><p>Seen through Loach's social-realist eyes, it's about how a sense of community and collective action can transform lives. Steve Evets as postman Eric, is the ManU fan whose life is falling apart until l'autre Eric, Cantona, appears to him, a guardian angel who helps him back on his feet. Loach demonstrates that it's perfectly possible to make a feelgood film about drugs, guns and gangs, depression and broken families.