{"id":143570,"date":"2024-08-22T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediamikes.com\/?p=143966"},"modified":"2024-08-22T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:10:57","slug":"film-review-the-other-laurens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/film-review-the-other-laurens\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: \u201cThe Other Laurens\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Starring: Olivier Rabourdin, Kate Moran and Marc Barbe
\nDirected by: Claude Schmitz
\nRated: R
\nRunning Time: 117 minutes
\nYellow Veil Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Score: 2 out of 5 Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel like I\u2019m flipping a coin anytime I see a horror or thriller film that had its premiere at Cannes Film Festival<\/a>. For every time I get a film I enjoy, like “Parasite,” “The Innocents” or “Neon Demon,” I make the mistake of sitting through “The Killing of Sacred Deer” or “Titane.” In comes \u201cThe Other Laurens,\u201d a film that checks the right boxes for me. Lynchian? Check. Neo-noir? Check. Dark comedy? Check. This should be good, but it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Gabriel (Olivier Rabourdin) is a miserable private investigator in Brussels, who sticks out like a frog on a log, although most people would see him and immediately forget him. Compounding his misery is Jade (Louise Leroy), his identical twin brother’s daughter, notifying him that his brother Gabriel has died in a car crash, although the events surrounding it don’t add up. Having been estranged from his brother for quite some time, Gabriel not only finds that his brother’s life is a mess, but there could be something sinister pulling the strings he’s attempting to untangle.<\/p>\n

About an hour into “The Other Laurens,” I began to wonder, not only where the time went, but if the plot had even furthered itself. While we get to understand more about Gabriel, Jade seems to just be viewer eye candy. Anytime we get to potentially learn more about it, the film seems certain that we need more reassurance that Gabriel is as frumpy as he looks. It\u2019s nothing against the acting, at all, it\u2019s just that Gabriel isn\u2019t a compelling lead even if he is a flawed hero. I understand his purpose to the plot, and the theme of personal evolution and escaping the shadow of your much better sibling, but it never coalesces, even by the time the film warps up. At times it feels like it\u2019s about to pull a fast one on you and make you re-evaluate it, but it doesn\u2019t<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Other Laurens\u201d is well-acted, well-shot, and at times has a perfect atmospheric homage to 80s aesthetic, but it\u2019s also exhaustingly written to a fault. It\u2019s easy to fault a movie\u2019s runtime when things begin to dry up, but it\u2019s not just that. Even when the film is engaging you, it seems uninterested in Gabriel and even if you\u2019re still interested. There are several scenes and moments of dialogue that really suck you in, but then it\u2019s overshadowed by another moment that appears to serve no purpose other than to further the point that Gabriels\u2019 life has been relatively meaningless and meandering up until this point. He\u2019s potentially handling the most personal, and diabolical case of his life, yet it never feels like it. Some of the promotional material before I watched this film painted it as a slow burn, but it\u2019s more like expecting damp wood to suddenly roar to life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Other Laurens\u201d is well-acted, well-shot, and at times has a perfect atmospheric homage to 80s aesthetic, but it\u2019s also exhaustingly written to a fault<\/p>\n

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