Robin Campillo

‘When Laurent became ill I said I would stay beside him. We never imagined he would die so quickly’

Robin Campillo on directing Enzo, which he wrote with his friend the late film-maker Laurent Cantet

Wed May 27 2026 - 05:12

Red Island director Robin Campillo: ‘In France we did not process the colonial experience of Madagascar so well. This was a forgotten story’

The man behind 120 BPM has made a film about his experiences as the child of a ‘very right-wing’ French military father in the former colony

Wed Feb 28 2024 - 05:00

Sauvage review: A powerful and upsetting experience

Félix Maritaud is a heartbreaking revelation as a sex worker seeking intimacy in France

Fri Mar 01 2019 - 05:00

The 50 best films of 2018

Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year

Mon Dec 10 2018 - 06:00

‘When the epidemic started I realised that we needed to be considered by society’

In his award-winning new film ‘120 BPM’, Robin Campillo pays tribute to the lives and the sacrifices of those behind the 1980s Aids activism group ACT UP

Sat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00

120 BPM: Flawed but worthwhile saga of the French Aids years

Robin Campillo’s film is at its best when at its most intimate

Fri Apr 06 2018 - 05:00

Cannes: Irish Colin Farrell film wins best screenplay award

Prize for the Irish-backed ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’, while ‘The Square’ wins Palme d’Or

Mon May 29 2017 - 07:30

Irish film among those ‘drooled over’ at Cannes

‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ is a Palme d’Or contender. ‘120 Beats per Minute’ is the favourite

Tue May 23 2017 - 05:00

Irish film starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in running for Cannes award

Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ from Element Pictures premieres at the French film festival to great acclaim

Mon May 22 2017 - 17:56

Awkward, odd and disturbing sex remains a distraction at Cannes

Thank heavens for ‘120 Beats per Minute’ which communicates affection through sex

Sun May 21 2017 - 14:53