Benjamin Franklin Film ‘A Great Awakening’ Hits For Nation’s 250th; François Ozon Takes On ‘The Stranger’ – Specialty Preview

Camus’s The Stranger, It Turns Out, Is Still Relevant

‘Oh no, they woke-ified ‘The Stranger’!’ cries the worst person you know. François Ozon’s gorgeous new adaptation of Albert Camus’s 1942 masterpiece offers a new angle on the story, even as it remains resolutely faithful.

Benjamin Franklin Film ‘A Great Awakening’ Hits For Nation’s 250th; François Ozon Takes On ‘The Stranger’ – Specialty Preview

'A Great Awakening' on the friendship of Benjamin Franklin and Rev. George Whitefield, and François Ozon's 'The Stranger' are new indie films opening.

New Movie Turns Albert Camus’s Iconic ‘Stranger’ Into a Vapid, Gen Z-Pouting Naif

The stiff, pretty boy remove of Mersault in François Ozon’s new adaptation does not befit a character who in the book is in constant dialogue with himself.

The Stranger Updates ‘Existential Crisis’

François Ozon’s "The Stranger" is beautiful to look at, but it dodges the fact that in our contemporary reality, existentialism is being ignored in favor of political distortion.

François Ozon on the Existentialism of The Stranger, Arab Representation, and Bressonian Acting

Nearly 30 years into his feature filmmaking career, French writer-director François Ozon has done it all: screwball comedies, murder mystery musicals, erotic dramas, thrillers, political films, and more. Now, for the first time, he’s adapted a crucial literary and philosophical work in Albert Camus’ The Stranger–starring Benjamin Voisin as the ever-elusive and tragically nonchalant Meursault–which has garnered significant attention in France, co…