Robin Campillo on Losing Friend Laurent Cantet and Finishing His Coming of Age Drama ‘Enzo’: ‘It Was About Joyfully Continuing What He Started’

Prior to his disappearance in 2024, the filmmaker of "Entre les murs" had entrusted this beautiful portrait of a teenager to his friend Robin Campillo. An unprecedented case in the history of cinema.

Robin Campillo on Losing Friend Laurent Cantet and Finishing His Coming of Age Drama ‘Enzo’: ‘It Was About Joyfully Continuing What He Started’

Above all, Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo were friends. Close since their student days, the duo soon began a keen creative partnership — co-writing films that Cantet directed and Campillo edited. When Cantet’s health began to decline, the two were already deep into developing “Enzo.” Now brought to the screen by Campillo, this year’s Directors’ […]

Filmmaker Robin Campillo and producer Marie-Ange Luciani go back to the genesis of the film, whose writing and conception were a collective work, marked by the death of the director of "Between the Walls" in 2024, a few days from the filming.

When one realizes, the others are assistant, screenwriter or editor. Since their film studies, the four friends have always supported each other's films. Also, when the director of "Between the Walls" fell ill in 2023, his accomplices accompanied him until his death in 2024, then took over to shoot his final project. Directed by Robin Campillo, "Enzo" made the opening of the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. As for Dominik Moll, he is in competiti…

How Robin Campillo Finished Cannes Premiere ‘Enzo’ After His Friend, and the Film’s Original Director, Laurent Cantet Died

Exclusive: The "BPM" filmmaker tells IndieWire about his summery coming-of-age queer drama "Enzo," which opens Directors' Fortnight, as we share an exclusive clip.

The opening film of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes 2025 Festival, Enzo by Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet follows the journey of a deboussolated teenager.