Robin Campillo on Losing Friend Laurent Cantet and Finishing His Coming of Age Drama ‘Enzo’: ‘It Was About Joyfully Continuing What He Started’

Above all, Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo were friends. Close since their student days, the duo soon began a keen creative partnership — co-writing films that Cantet directed and Campillo edited. When Cantet’s health began to decline, the two were already deep into developing “Enzo.” 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 thought about the...