The Stranger
Mon 16 Mar
Algiers, 1938. An unassuming man in his early thirties, Meursault attends his mother’s funeral, at which he does not cry. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie and slips back into his daily routine. Then, one blisteringly hot afternoon, an inexplicable, tragic event occurs on a beach; one that will see Meursault’s moral standing brought into question. Voisin is terrific as the unnervingly disaffected Meursault. Shot in cool black-and-white, the film brings a contemporary slant to Camus’ tale of alienation, capturing a charged society – 1930s French-colonised Algeria – on the boil
DIRECTOR: François Ozon STARRING: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud
Showing as part of the Borderlines Film Festival

Duration: 122 mins
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