Enzo - Queer Cinema Summer preview
This summer, we’re turning up the heat with a series ofpreviews you won’t want to miss. So grab your besties and celebrate a sizzling Queer Cinema Summer with us!
With echoes of Call Me by Your Name, Robin Campillo’s (120 BPM) sun-drenched drama follows young, privileged Enzo, who becomes enamoured with his troubled and to handsome Ukranian coworker. Opening Film of Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2025.
Growing up in a well-off family in the south of France, Enzo leaves school to work on a construction site. Ill-suited for manual labour, he nevertheless refuses when urged to pursue his talents as an artist instead. At the same time, he’s unsure of how to act on his growing attraction to his co-worker, Vlad, a Ukrainian migrant being pressured to return and join the war effort.
Campillo, working with a screenplay and vision entrusted to him by the now sadly departed Laurent Cantet (2008 Cannes Palme d’Or Être & Avoir), gently depicts a complex transition to adulthood in a film sure to elicit comparisons to Call Me by Your Name. Enzo encapsulates the way in which normalcy – a career, a future, romance, desire – can seem impossible to contemplate in times of war.
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This summer, we’re turning up the heat with a series ofpreviews you won’t want to miss. So grab your besties and celebrate a sizzling Queer Cinema Summer with us!
With echoes of Call Me by Your Name, Robin Campillo’s (120 BPM) sun-drenched drama follows young, privileged Enzo, who becomes enamoured with his troubled and to handsome Ukranian coworker. Opening Film of Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2025.
Growing up in a well-off family in the south of France, Enzo leaves school to work on a construction site. Ill-suited for manual labour, he nevertheless refuses when urged to pursue his talents as an artist instead. At the same time, he’s unsure of how to act on his growing attraction to his co-worker, Vlad, a Ukrainian migrant being pressured to return and join the war effort.
Campillo, working with a screenplay and vision entrusted to him by the now sadly departed Laurent Cantet (2008 Cannes Palme d’Or Être & Avoir), gently depicts a complex transition to adulthood in a film sure to elicit comparisons to Call Me by Your Name. Enzo encapsulates the way in which normalcy – a career, a future, romance, desire – can seem impossible to contemplate in times of war.
