Original Title: L’Etranger
From celebrated director François Ozon comes a haunting, visually arresting reimagining of Albert Camus’ foundational existentialist masterpiece. Shot in sensuous, high-contrast black-and-white, this is the definitive version of The Stranger for a new generation.
In the sweltering heat of 1930s colonial Algiers, Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) leads a life of quiet indifference. When a chance encounter on a sun-drenched beach leads to a shocking act of violence, Meursault is thrust into a trial where it is not his crime, but his honesty that puts his soul on the line.
France | 2025 | 2h 2m
Directed by François Ozon
Starring Benjamin Voisin
In French with English subtitles
“The French film is spare, elegant and perfectly cast, making for an incomparable literary adaptation that leaves nothing lost in translation.”
– AARP Movies for Grownups
“The Stranger, it turns out, is a story for our times, which makes this lovely new version doubly welcome.”
– New York Magazine
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