Robin Campillo: "Making 'Enzo' saved me. If I hadn't found myself in the anguish of work, I would have plunged in."
Interview by Nicolas Schaller
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Robin Campillo at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. JULIEN LIENARD FOR “LE NOUVEL OBS”
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Interview : By taking over the reins of "Enzo" after the death of Laurent Cantet, the director of "120 Beats per Minute" has warded off sadness and sealed a beautiful story of cinema and friendship. He tells his story.
On April 25, 2024, Laurent Cantet died of cancer at the age of 63 , a month and a half before the shooting of what was to be his new film, "Enzo." A story of a class defector, as the director of "The Class" (Palme d'Or 2008) liked them: that of a son from a good family who dropped out of school and decided, at 16, to become a mason on construction sites, much to the dismay of his father.
With the script completed and the crew ready to shoot, it was considered abandoning everything before Robin Campillo, the director of "120 Beats per Minute," a close friend and collaborator of Cantet—he was his editor and co-writer—took up the torch. A story of a genesis like no other.
Where was “Enzo” when Laurent Cantet fell ill?Robin Campillo Laurent had written about twenty pages with Gilles Marchand, but...
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