Eric Cantona as a mysterious barroom philosopher in independent British film "Jack Says", released to DVD in September 2008. He co-starred as director Thierry Grimandi in "French Film" (2009), and is co-producer and a lead actor in Ken Loach's Palme D'or nominated film "Looking for Eric" (2009). He stars as The Corsican in the Danish western "The Salvation", which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2014. Cantona has frequently appeared in commercials for the sportswear company Nike. In 1996, he was the central figure in a Nike commercial titled "Good vs Evil" in a gladiatorial game set in
Up in the Air (2009 film) in front of a vast destination board, looking up, and letting go of his luggage. The film has a thematic connection to the children's book "The Velveteen Rabbit", which appears in the film, before the wedding. Reitman noted that Reitman also later stated that "the movie is about the examination of a philosophy. What if you decided to live hub to hub, with nothing, with nobody?". Walter Kirn wrote "Up in the Air", the book on which the film is based, during a snowbound winter on a ranch in rural Montana, while thinking about airports, airplanes and first-class passengers he