US EditionFrom Novelist to Influencer: the Many Sides to Albert Camus
Francois Ozon's black-and-white film adaptation of Camus' novel explores colonial-era Algeria's societal tensions and existential themes, with Gaumont financing and a release set for Oct. 29, 2025.
- Ahead of its festival run, Francois Ozon adapted Albert Camus's The Stranger with a present-day perspective on French Algeria and colonization.
- Set in early 1940s Algiers under French colonial rule, The Stranger is among the three-most read French-language books and explores Camus's themes of indifference and trial absurdity.
- Benjamin Voisin stars as Meursault, chosen for charisma and past work with Ozon; the film’s black-and-white style unifies visuals, while cast and Ozon balanced Meursault’s presence through restraint and challenge.
- Critics noted the novel's original omission of the Arab character, and Ozon said he named that figure, while younger readers and social media have revived interest in Camus.
- At the Venice Film Festival this year, The Outsider premiered in competition, marking Ozon's return after earlier work, while he met Catherine Camus and emphasized the Algerian War's relevance.
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‘The Stranger’ Review: François Ozon Takes Two Hours To Do What The Cure Did In Less Than Three Minutes – Venice Film Festival
‘The Stranger’ review: François Ozon's Camus adaptation takes two hours to do what The Cure did in less than three minutes – Venice Film Festival
‘The Stranger’ Review: François Ozon Unpacks French-Algerian Tensions in His Albert Camus Update
There is a chameleonic quality to François Ozon; unlike many auteurs, he does not simply remake the same film in different guises. The cool, voyeuristic gaze of Charlotte Rampling in the psychosexual thriller “Swimming Pool” is nothing like the Catherine Denueve-led musical “8 Women,” just as the slippery, nesting doll of stories “In the House” is a world away from the camp and kinky erotic thriller “L’Amant Double.” Cohering his body of work is…
Francois Ozon on Adapting Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’: ‘I Wanted to Make It With Today’s Perspective of French Algeria and Colonization’
French director Francois Ozon discusses his film adaptation of Albert Camus' masterpiece 'The Stranger' which premieres in competition at Venice.
In a clear black and white, detailed, ancient, which reveals the streets of Algiers at the end of the 1930s. Meursault, thirty-year-old employee, speaks little, seems to live life as something that does not concern him. It is the foreigner, or the foreigner. It is with a reinterpretation of Albert Camus' novel L'étranger, published in 1942 and became one of the most sold and translated novels of French literature, that François Ozon returns to t…
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