The Stranger (15)
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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