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Robin Campillo on Losing Friend Laurent Cantet and Finishing His Coming of Age Drama ‘Enzo’: ‘It Was About Joyfully Continuing What He Started’
Robin Campillo on losing friend Lauren Cantet and finishing film ‘Enzo’.
Close since their student days, the duo soon began a keen creative partnership — co-writing films that Cantet directed and Campillo edited. Now brought to the screen by Campillo, this year’s Directors’ Fortnight opener began as a passion project for Cantet, who set out to explore class and sexual fluidity through the story of a privileged young man rejecting his place in society. Cantet and Campillo envisioned the title character — played by newcomer Eloy Pohu — as a quiet enigma: a young man who resists social expectations through silence and withdrawal, slipping through the cracks as a form of protest.
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