# ‘The Stranger’ movie review: A thrillingly resolved, enigmatic literary adaptation

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-stranger-movie-review-a-thrillingly-resolved-enigmatic-literary-adaptation/
- Published: 2026-11-02T05:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T05:08:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/francois-ozon-the-stranger-movie-review/
- Topics: Offbeat, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- Ozon adapts Camus’ classic with style and intrigue.
- Benjamin Voisin plays the detached Meursault.
- The film preserves the story’s existential ambiguity.

## Summary

François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ *The Stranger* turns the novel’s unresolved crime and existential questions into a stylish, absorbing film. Benjamin Voisin plays Meursault, a detached young man in French Algeria whose involvement in a killing unsettles the story while leaving its central ambiguities intact.

The film moves between Meursault learning of his mother’s death and his imprisonment for killing an Arab man, using a non-linear structure to build towards the crime. The review praises Voisin’s expressive restraint, Rebecca Marder’s portrayal of Marie and Denis Lavant’s supporting performance, as well as Fatima Al Qadiri’s atmospheric score.

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