ENZO

US Premiere | France | 2025 | Drama, Coming of Age | 102 min | In French and Ukrainian with English subtitles |

Directed by: Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo
Written by: Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand
Produced by: Marie-Ange Luciani (Les Films de Pierre), Jacques Audiard (Page 114), Alexandre Mattiussi (AMI Paris), Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Les Films du Fleuve), France 3 Cinéma
Cinematography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Original Score: Vincent Blanchard
Film Editing: Robin Campillo
Cast: Eloy Pohu (Enzo), Pierfrancesco Favino (Paolo), Élodie Bouchez (Marion), Maksym Slivinskyi (Vlad), Nathan Japy (Victor), Malou Khebizi (Amina), Vladislav Holyk (Miroslav), Philippe Petit (Corelli)
International Sales: mk2 Films

Synopsis

Defying his bourgeois, uber-educated family, enigmatic 16-year-old Enzo is determined to become a mason, has enrolled in a trade school, and is apprenticing on a construction site. Feeling lost and pressured by his mathematician father’s constant goading, Enzo is totally unprepared for the feelings that Vlad, a hot Ukrainian coworker, suddenly awakens in him. This poignant coming-of-age tale about class and sexual fluidity was meant to be Laurent Cantet‘s last film. Weakened by cancer, he stepped aside just weeks before shooting began and turned the reins over to his cowriter and longtime collaborator Robin Campillo. Enzo is a delicate melding of their respective sensibilities.

Directors’ biographies

Close friends since their student days, Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo have shared a keen creative partnership – co-writing scripts that Cantet directed and Campillo edited – spanning some 16 years, and including such films as Time Out (2001), Heading South (COLCOA 2006), Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012), and the 2008 Palme d’Or winner The Class, which also earned the duo a César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Prior to that, Cantet was honored with a César for Best First Film for Human Resources (1999). Campillo has also directed his own films, including They Came Back (2004); Eastern Boys (2013); his AIDS-epoch box-office hit 120 BMP, which won the Cannes’ Grand Prix; and Red Island (2023). Sadly, Laurent Cantet died on April 25, 2024. Enzo premiered as the Opening Film of this year’s Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.