UK | 2009 | colour | 116 min
reż|dir Ken Loach  pro|pro Rebecca O’Brien Sixteen Films sce|Sc Paul Laverty zdj|ph Barry Ackroyd muz|mus George Fenton mon|ed Jonathan Morris ob|cast Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, Stefan Gumbs dys|dis SPI

Eric is a postman. He is tired with life. Family chaos, two troublesome sons, and a deeply hidden secret descend him into crisis. Will he be able to meet Lily, a woman, whom he loved 30 years ago? Despite unusual effort and friendly colleagues, Eric descends deeper. In a desperate moment joint and a good friend is enough, to provoke the lost postman to make a journey into the most dangerous territory – into the past. Director Ken Loach said of the film, “We wanted to deflate the idea of celebrities as more than human. And we wanted to make a film that was enjoying the idea of what you and I would call solidarity, but what others would call support for your friends really, and the old idea that we are stronger as a team than we are as individuals”. 

AWARDS
2009 British Independent Film Awards – award in category Best Supporting Actor for John Henshaw

DIRECTOR | Ken Loach (1936)
English film and television director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs. Together with Tony Garnette Loach connected some features of Italian neo-realism, and French New Wave creating a new film genre – docudrama. In 2006, Loach won the Palme d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley.