Enzo It’s not just about exploring a little boy’s discomfort with his family’s social class. It turns out that director Robin Campillo told Hollywood ReportR, the French-made film is actually the last cheer of his long-time friend and Cannes Palme d'Or champion Laurent Cantet.
“It’s really a film by Laurent Canet and Laurent Cantet Enzohe first met his filmmaker in 1983. “I did the job to some extent, but it was indeed his movie, and I think the existence of this movie is a victory over death.”
Cantet wrote the script after a 16-year-old (Eloy Pohu), who sets the expectations of the bourgeois family by starting a masonry apprentice. He also intends to direct it - but the cancer diagnosis has blocked Cantent's 18th film. He died in April 2024 and passed the baton to Campier. "I'm going to be every step of the film making," explained the director of BPM 2017. "Casting, preparation and shooting because we're worried (Kante) is too tired to talk to the photographer, to talk to the technician. So I'll be like an assistant, but a very personal assistant...I'll edit the movie with him, but after the cast, he's quickly sick and he's dead very quickly."
"Before he passed away, we were chatting together while he was in the hospital, we decided to have his wife Isabelle and producer Marie-Gang Luciani, and we told him we were happy to finish the film for him. I think he was very moved by it."
As Campillo describes, Enzo is not an ordinary story of a meditative teenager, but an analysis of the widespread pressure on the shoulders of young people in an increasingly chaotic world. "You have to choose what you want to do in your life very quickly," he said. "It's a mess - Ukraine, Gaza, all this violence, elections in the United States. We're in a very difficult time...we ask young people to (know exactly) what they want to do, who they want to be. But we have a messy world to promote and promote and commit to them."
While Kanter's film is not about the rebel son, Enzo does fall in love with an older Ukrainian man on a construction site, shocking his parents. “I think for Laurenter, he likes the things about young people – they are sexual.
Add to Campillo: "I think Cannes is the right place (because Enzo). The audience will be many (Kante) friends, and many of them are working together in the film industry. This is not a dark movie, it is glowing. It's like a feast, and I think it's a pleasure. ”