Yellow Veil Pictures debuted the official trailer for ‘The Other Laurens’ (Les Autres Laurens), a neo-noir/comedy film following a private detective as he uncovers the truth behind his brother’s murder after his niece asks him to investigate.

‘The Other Laurens’ had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section and its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest, winning the Grand Prix and Best Actor Prize for lead actor Olivier Rabourdin at the Brussels International Film Festival last year.

Starring the film are Oliver Rabourdin, Louise Leroy, Kate Moran, Marc Barbe, Tibo Vandenborre, and Edwin Gaffney.

Release Date

Directed by Claude Schmitz, ‘The Other Laurens’ opens in theaters at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin, on August 23, 2024 and on VOD on August 27, 2024.

Synopsis

Gabriel Laurens is a private detective. When his niece, Jade, asks him to investigate her father’s death, the detective must confronts the ghosts of his past. Gabriel finds himself caught up in a strange investigation mixing pretense, fantasy, and drug trafficking.

“I wanted to make a film about identity and heritage. When I was young and in boarding school, I was first shown a lot of auteur films, Bergman, Kurosawa, and then in the next boarding school, B-movies, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, the testosterone-filled films of the 80s, which conveyed a very caricatured and gendered vision of the world. In a way, these two types of cinema mixed in my head, and created a kind of schizophrenic heritage.” says director Claude Schmitz on the film in an interview with Cineuropa, he continues with “I wanted to make a film that mirrored these two cinemas, a film that was both a tribute and also critical and ironic. It’s a detective film, an investigation, and it’s also an investigation into the question of gender. A film noir that mixes comedy, action and B-movies. In the end, it’s a tale about the disappearance of a vision of the world that I would describe as patriarchal, a fable about the lie of fathers.”

Reviews

Jordan Mintzer in a Hollywood Reporter review praised the film’s concept, writing “It’s the perfect concept for a film noir — a genre that’s always favored double-crossings or double indemnities, and Schmitz keeps repeating the doubling motif until we no longer know which of the brothers is which.”

Stephen Saito in a Moveable Fest review also praised the film, writing “‘The Other Laurens’ takes a solid film noir premise and twists it to warped ends, delivering a moody slow burn that resists slickness but holds its share of intrigue.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for ‘The Other Laurens’.