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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Bradshaw

Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

Tragicomic … Eloy Pohu (Enzo), left, and Maksym Slivinskyi (Vlad) in Enzo.
Tragicomic … Eloy Pohu (Enzo), left, and Maksym Slivinskyi (Vlad) in Enzo. Photograph: ©Les Films de Pierre

The directors fortnight sidebar of Cannes opens with a heartfelt, urgent drama about youth and desire – and destiny, sexuality and class. It is, effectively, the final movie of the late Laurent Cantet, who died last year.

Cantet was working on the screenplay with his longtime collaborator and contemporary, Robin Campillo and it is Campillo who now directs – and brings to the movie his usual intelligence and clarity.

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