“I killed an Arab.” These are the first words uttered by Meursault (Benjamin Voisin), the protagonist of François Ozon’s The Stranger, and already we can sense that this adaptation of Albert Camus’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the same sun beating down on us all, Albert Camus memorably conveyed in his oft-debated 1942 novel "The Stranger," it's just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” — considered one of France’s ...

So many politicians and pundits misuse the term “existential crisis” that French director François Ozon must rectify it with his new film version of The Stranger, the 1942 Albert Camus novel that ...

"You carry a burden of sin. You need liberation." The first festival trailer has debuted for the next new film by acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon, his second film this year following When ...

Meursault from 'The Stranger' still unsettles readers because he refuses expected grief, remorse and faith, forcing hard questions about justice, emotional performance and why unfamiliar feeling ...

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VENICE — Adapting a book for the screen is always "a betrayal," French director François Ozon says, but in bringing Albert Camus' "The Stranger" to the Venice Film Festival he hopes to generate fresh ...

Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) is a man of little words and fewer deeds. He idles away, smoking, brooding and gazing at the world with zen-like detachment, barely shedding a tear at his mother’s funeral ...

Nine years ago, when I asked director extraordinaire François Ozon about being honored regularly by critics’ groups worldwide, he replied, “Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole ...

Set in bustling 1940s Algiers, where escaping the fierce sunlight and oppressive heat is impossible, the movie was photographed by regular Ozon collaborator Manu Dacosse in gleaming black and white ...