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Cantona scores at Cannes


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, talented French footballer Eric Cantona scored a new triumph at Cannes on Monday, this time in British director Ken Loach's entry for the film festival's coveted cov·et  
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 Cantona" won huge applause from the critics at a screening ahead of its red-carpet release, making the movie a top contender for the Cannes trophy.

The Manchester United star, who quit football 12 years ago, plays the role of psychological mentor to a depressed postman, struggling to cope with life and his two teenage stepsons.

Cantona, who has acted in a handful of films, plays himself, appearing like a vision to help the Manchester postman also named Eric and in the process delivering a stream of his quintessential proverbs Proverbs, book of the Bible. It is a collection of sayings, many of them moral maxims, in no special order. The teaching is of a practical nature; it does not dwell on the salvation-historical traditions of Israel, but is individual and universal based on the  -- often in French.

A hymn to soccer, Cantona said in Cannes that the movie brings a message about the importance of team-play. "These are wonderful people with wonderful solidarity," he said of Man United fans.
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