Looking for Eric (2009)

Ken Loach makes a film about what a club means to the people who follow it. A middle-aged Manchester postman, a soccer fan whose life is coming apart, starts taking advice from Eric Cantona, who plays himself and steps out of a poster on the wall. It sounds like a gimmick, and Cantona is very funny sending up his own philosophical image, but the film's real subject is how much of a fan's sense of himself is tied up in his team and the friends he watches it with. Shot entirely in Manchester, it feels lived in, and it is as much a warm working-class comedy as a soccer film.