Is Enzo a good film? Here is what the spectators of Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo

“”A film by Laurent Cantet and directed by Robin Campillo“. This is a fairly rare formulation in the cinema. The case of Enzo is, it is true, particular: initiator of the project, Laurent Cantet could not stage this film following his fight against cancer. Following his death, which occurred on April 25, 2024, it was his friend Robin Campillo, director of 120 beats per minute, who seizes the project.

Of great sensitivity, Enzo follows the journey of a 16 -year -old boy (Eloy Pohu). Coming from a bourgeois environment, he wishes to become a mason. A desire that his father does not seem to understand. It is on the site of a house that the young worker meets Vlad (Maksym Slivinskyi), a Ukrainian immigrant who gives birth in him the beginning of a deep desire.

On Allociné, the film obtains an average press of 3.9 out of 5 for 34 titles. On the spectators side, the note is 3.8* out of 5.

A moving tribute

Among the many positive feedbacks, a large part of the spectators underlines the moving gesture of Robin Campillo returned to his missing friend, Laurent Cantet. “”I loved this film, I loved seeing the social dimension and the territory of Laurent Cantet with the Sensual and Solar Station of Robin Campillo, Magnificent Witness between these 2 directors“, Writes Adelebastien.

“”A powerful film where we feel the inheritance of Laurent Cantet, in this way of capturing bodies, groups, and social tensions at human level“, Adds Boyan Tulechki. The LCDC user is also going in this direction:”By paying a beautiful tribute to his friend and artist, Campillo films Cantet with his style, with his dreamlike, with his poetry, without transcending his style or that of the late filmmaker, but by offering a beautiful anthem to the French director“.

The revelation of a young actor

The interpretation of actor Eloy Pohu – of which it is the first role – is also welcomed. “”The young boy who plays Enzo is extremely charismatic“, Enthuses louciné. Capirex underlines the duo of the film:”Eloy Pohu, a non -professional actor, and Maksym Slivinskyi, mason in real life, are excellent in their roles!“”

Spectators recognize in Enzo a “sensitive” portrait of adolescence. “”Magnificent, bright but also political, a great film about adolescence and the world around us“, Writes Alexh. Tarantin0 adds:”Excellent simple and well staged film. A magnificent and realistic representation of youth and homosexuality.“”

“Lengths”?

On the reserves side, some spectators point to lengths, like Joce2012: “This film did not transport me, there are lengths, it does not finish, even if the theme is topical about the ill -being of a teenager in a rich family.“”I recognize many qualities of this filmtempers Laure S. The story of a class “upside down” defector is interesting and rather well interpreted, the image is beautiful but I have almost never been moved or even touched. “

*The average of the spectator notes, recorded at the time of writing this article, is likely to evolve.

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