Divided into three parts ("Ghosts," "Torments," "Abysses") and punctuated by quotes from poems by the likes of Anne Hébert, Denis Vanier and Hubert Aquin, Laurentie doesn’t reveal its hand until the very end, which is bound to leave you reeling. Filled with muted tension, pathos and impotent rage, Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie’s film, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary film fest this summer, is the raw portrait of a young Québécois (rivetingly played by Emmanuel Schwartz) who feels alienated from his job, his on-and-off girlfriend (Eugénie Beaudry), his drinking buddies and, perhaps most of all, his new anglo neighbour (Jay Kashyap). Favouring long unbroken shots and ambient sound, the filmmakers slowly but surely draw us in until the haunting finale.