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Robin Campillo Unveiled His Armchair and Presented ENZO, a Film Co-Directed with Laurent Cantet, at the 23rd FICM

Sofía Alvarado

Enzo, Laurent Cantet's posthumous work directed by Robin Campillo after the author's death, premiered as part of the 23rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). During the film's presentation, the French director unveiled a commemorative armchair bearing his name.

The film tells the story of a sixteen-year-old teenager who wants to escape the comfortable but suffocating environment that surrounds him and decides to work as a bricklayer near the luxurious mansion where he lives. His parents see Enzo as a failure compared to his brother, who is an exemplary student. 

This work blends the interests of both authors: on the one hand, Cantet seeks to create a more socially conscious piece, as the author of Entre les murs (2008), and on the other, Campillo's more intimate style, as the author of 120 beats per minute (2017).

The script, which they started together, was completed by Campillo, alongside a third screenwriter, Gilles Marchand, who had already worked with both authors.

This is not the first film Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo worked on together. They met in the 1980s at IDHEC , where the two co-wrote and edited several films, including Time Out (2001), Heading South (2005), and The Class, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and earned Campillo a César Award for Best Adaptation in 2009.

“Four decades of friendship, we discovered cinema together, we learned together [...] it was like talking to him still, and I still can’t conceive that he’s dead,” said Robin Campillo during the presentation.