A new take on Camus’ ‘The Stranger’ by a veteran French stylist digs unto the unspoken

The film opens with historical footage of Algeria when it was a French colony in the 1930s, immediately establishing a sense of bustling life alongside a clear distinction between the native population and colonizers. Director François Ozon continues the film in black and white, a stylistic choice that, like the recent “Ripley” series, creates a strikingly elegant and detached atmosphere. This rich monochrome enhances the beautifully filmed “Stranger,” captured by cinematographer Manu Dacosse, and draws the viewer into the enigmatic world of Meursault (played convincingly by Benjamin Voisin), an Algiers clerk who repeatedly expresses a sense of apathy – that nothing truly matters.








