Enzo
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026
March 5 - 15
In this film by Laurent Cantet, directed by Robin Campillo (BPM (Beats Per Minute), Red Island), a burgeoning friendship with a migrant Ukrainian laborer stirs 16-year-old Enzo out of his unmotivated slump.
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.
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