The enfant-not-at-all-terrible of French cinema, Eric Cantona is proving that he's got more than a few strings to his bow. Since his days illuminating Old Trafford with his lavish skills and acutely-timed collar adjustments, he's forged an increasingly convincing career on the screen.
If you're a movie-loving seagull following the trawler that is Cantona's big screen career - bear with us here, this loopy metaphor is our tribute to the great man - then you'll be wanting to get your, erm, beak straight into this new clip and trailer from his latest, Switch.
In this scene, Canadian holidaymaker Sophie Malaterre (Karine Vanasse) discovers that the Parisian flat switch that seemed too good to be true *is *too good to be true. She's been framed for all manner of nefarious deeds and is suddenly staring at approximately a basquillion years in jail. Merde.
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But help may be arriving in the brooding and sharp-witted guise of Cantona's brooding Parisian 'tec. It's he who slowly realises that all is not quite what it seems.
Like a two-footed Alain Delon, the footballer-turned-thespian casts a smoulderingly cool shadow over a Paris-set crime thriller that, on paper at least, plays a little like **Frantic **meets The Fugitive.
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During his acting career to date Cantona has translated his charismatic presence convincingly in movies like **Elizabeth **and Looking For Eric for Shekhar Kapur and Ken Loach. Can he repeat the trick for French director Frédéric Schoendoerffer? Find out when **Switch **arrives on March 30.