The Stranger

Ends Thursday, June 4!

Nominated for four César Awards, winner of Best Supporting Actor (Pierre Lottin)

After teaming with Benjamin Voisin for the actor’s breakout role in Summer of 85, François Ozon reunites with that film’s star and a cast that includes Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, and Denis Lavant for a bold new envisioning of Albert Camus’s novel. In a part previously played by Marcello Mastroianni in Luchino Visconti’s 1967 adaptation, Voisin definitively embodies Meursault, the tightly coiled center of a narrative that recounts a murder in Algiers under French colonial rule. While staying faithful to the chilly, fascinating darkness of Camus’s existential classic, Ozon also gives new life to the canonical text, not least by bringing Algeria to the thematic and visual foreground in this adaptation. Shooting in starkly blown-out black and white that suggests the oppressive heat of Meursault’s surroundings, Ozon’s sensitive, queer-inflected reading of Camus’s classic rises to the challenge with appropriately enigmatic elegance. Winner of the César Award for Best Supporting Actor (Lottin) and three Lumières Awards, including Best Film and Best Actor (Voisin). Opening Night selection, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026. A Music Box Films release.