COme often happens to the festivals, it is on the periphery that are the pearls. The film that inaugurated the official selection yesterday and, Enzo who opened the Quinzaine des Cinéastesside section of the Festival, today, have something in common. I am Both stories of class transfuctions. In two opposite directions.
If The protagonist of Leave a Jour She is the daughter of two restaurateurs who manage a trattoria for truck drivers In a small city that starts, it is lucky enough in the gastronomic reality and is preparing to open a place that aims at Michelin stars, the young protagonist of Enzo – film conceived and written by Laurent Cantet and made, after his death, from Robin Campillo – It is the scion of a pair of bourgeois – Elodie Bouchez and Pierfrancesco Favino (engineer she, university professor, and it is she who earns more) – that refuses the fate written for him by the family (that the older brother instead embraces), leaves his studies and chooses to work as an apprentice in a construction company.
Enzoportrait of a disturbed adolescence
It is when the construction site, not happy with the boy’s performance, asks to speak with the parents, who together with him we discover where Enzo comes from: The parents on board the tank with a glass of rosé welcome us amiably. The father would like Enzo to continue his studies, the mother interprets the choice of the son as a phase of passage in his growth path. So open and helpful that when Enzo will take a girl home a few days later (Malou Khebizi, seen in Brut Diamant), will not make a turn even in front of the two half -naked boys in the pool. Scandalizing the young woman who would have expected more severity.
The generation of fathers (much more than that of mothers) is clearly in trouble. The sixteen year old who disputes the idea that the only way to proceed in life is to study puts constructs and vocations in serious difficulties. But even more destabilizing it is the comparison with an incomprehensible masculinity: the site colleague Vlad (Maksym Slivinskyi, perfect, had never recited before); Ukrainian He is also shouting, but from the war, Enzo’s admiration arouses. Maybe something more.
The debutant Eloy Pohu is Enzo.
Pierfrancesco Favino in Enzofather in difficulty
Bigger, with experience, representative of a virile exoticismbrings the boy to exciting, but also inaccessible places: the scene in which Enzo is rejected by the bounce of the disco, and chooses to spend the night alone, under the stars, is very beautiful. To the worried father, who waited for him on the sofa until dawn, he will suggest that his night was adventurous.
It is not easy to make visible The sense of inadequacy that is felt in that infernal age in which the choices that will condition all the life that will come. Enzowith the simplicity that comes from a title that coincides with the name of the protagonist (as Rosette of the Dardenne brothers), it succeeds very well. Underlining the cruel disparity between those who can make them and those in front of him a obligatory road: Vlad will conclude its escape along the war front which can no longer escape.
Pierfrancesco Favino and Elodie Bouchez in Enzo.
And there is more. The film that opened the Quinzaine It is also the story of a friendship. Robin Campillo, the author of 120 beats per minutewas the friend’s friend and studies of Laurent Cantet, the editor of his previous films and had no doubts when he was to commit himself to completing the work that Cantet had started and that he knew he could hardly have completed.
We can understand something about the two authors who co-insist on the film: the themes dear to Laurent Cantet are all there, work, the destiny of class, the fracture between generations (twenty -five years later Human resources and in the opposite direction), the search for their place in the world. Which Campillo added the charm of the summer news (the scene takes place in La Ciotat), to do in the end «A joyful and a little melodramatic film, At Douglas Sirk or winning Minnelli, without being afraid of emotions, “he said.
Enzo It will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red. We will keep you informed about the exit in our cinemas.
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