A 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.
Robin Campillo was born in Mohammedia (Morocco) on August 16, 1962. After university studies in Aix-en-Provence, in the early 1980s he enrolled at the IDHEC, where he met Laurent Cantet. He works as a film editor, screenwriter and director. With Laurent Cantet, he cowrote and edited a number of films, including Ressources Humaines, L'Emploi du temps (2001), Vers le sud (2005) and Entre les murs (Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2008). In 2004, he directed his first feature, Les Revenants, which would inspire the Canal + series of the same name. He found international recognition with Eastern Boys (2013), Orizzonti Prize at the Venice Festival, and 120 Battements par minute (2017), Grand Prize at the Cannes Festival, winner of several Césars and awards in numerous festivals. In 2024, he directed Enzo, Laurent Cantet's last film that they wrote together.
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