Looking For Eric Gets Picked Up At Cannes

Ken Loach's Looking for Eric has been picked up at after being screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

IFC have acquired U.S. rights to the movie which is competing in the In Competition category this year at the festival, Loach won for The Wind That Shakes the Barley on 2006.

The movie follows a downtrodden postman who feels his life is slipping through his fingers. His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink.

Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved?  Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink.

In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to challenge Eric to journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past.

Antichrist was also picked up by Rainbow Media.

Looking for Eric is released 12th June.