Enzo

Over 20 years, Robin Campillo collaborated closely with Laurent Cantet on six films, including 2008’s acclaimed Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Class (NYFF48), as both editor and co-writer. When Cantet died from cancer in 2024, Campillo chose to honor his extraordinary legacy of nuanced, up-to-the-minute social realism by filming their final jointly written screenplay. Talented but failing at school, 16-year-old Enzo (Eloy Pohu) feels alienated from his wealthy, well-meaning family (Pierfrancesco Favino and Élodie Bouchez). Seeking to chart his own path, he struggles to gain a foothold as a construction site apprentice, until a burgeoning friendship with migrant Ukrainian laborer Vlad (Maksym Slivinskyi) stirs him out of his unmotivated slump. Sensitively depicting a young man’s sexually ambiguous friendship, Campillo (BPM (Beats Per Minute), NYFF55; Red Island, Rendez-Vous 2024) gently steers this film’s depiction of the intimate reverberations of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war.