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Miasto movie /// Urban Spirituality - Looking for Eric

Miasto movie /// Urban Spirituality - Looking for Eric
Start date 2014-03-05
Start time 19:00
Location Warsztaty Kultury, ul. Grodzka 5A
Kategoria Cycle

Starting in March we will be looking for any manifestation of spirituality in the city
With the advent of spring, as part of the “Miasto Movie” screenings, we have launched a new thematic cycle. We will try to portray or rather capture, if only fleetingly, the ever ethereal and always elusive nature of urban spirituality.
Each city has its own secrets, its own facets, upon which the civic identity is founded. So far we have showcased among others the city’s scary and seedy side, full of dark mysteries and dangers; we have visited sad and lonesome cities as well as fantastical fairy-tale like and imaginary ones. Now, our goal is to reach beneath the surface, to go deeper than before so as to see the more metaphysical aspects of the city. We construe (and construct) urban spirituality in a number of ways. On the one hand, each city is typified by its own aura, its own unprecedented climate and unrepeatable character. Paying each city a visit, we experience a range of different moods or emotional states. On the other hand, it is the people that make the city complete. If there are people – and there are people indeed – be they residents, tourists, travellers or casual visitors, there are beliefs, customs, assertions, etc. Each person has a set of convictions that are dear to him or her. Each person relies on some form of judgment or belief while making life-changing decisions. These axioms may be of religious or scientific nature. They may be also traditional or private – possibilities are virtually countless. All of them form particles constituting the spiritual tissue of the city and its community.
What we are about to experience is a unique, film journey in search of different manifestations of urban spirituality.

Looking for Eric – Eric Cantona is an absolutely unique sports personality. An eminent French footballer, a living legend of Manchester United, a scandalizing presence, an art aficionado, and a philanthropist. In a nutshell, a Renaissance man. Having retired from football, he started to lead a life closer to the film industry, pursuing a part career, a part adventure. He played a few episodic roles in a number of movies, among others in critically acclaimed “Elizabeth”. It was, however, not until Ken Loach, one of the grand masters of British social cinema, offered him a part that Cantona was tasked with a real acting challenge. In “Looking for Eric”, Cantona plays himself or rather a peculiar version of himself. Eric Bishop (Steve Evets), an ordinary Mancunian mailman, is the film’s protagonist. When he suddenly finds himself stranded on the life’s hard shoulder and when he is literally bombarded with problems, an uncanny miracle takes place. And not a mere miracle but a specially customized one, commissioned for the sake of Eric Bishop. He stars seeing no other person than Eric Cantona, who – as if he were a prophet or a messiah – will guide Bishop, aid him in his misery, eventually helping him out altogether.
In “Looking for Eric”, Ken Loach, who for a considerable number of consecutive years has been treating us to his shrewd portraits of the residents of the United Kingdom, for the first time in his impressive cinematographic history adds touches of the comedic and the fantastical.
Feel invited to attend the on-screen meeting of two Erics in a film that is one of the most original feel-good movies of the 2000s.

Free admission.

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