Wednesday, May 27th at 7pm!
In French Algeria, Meursault drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he stands accused of murdering an Arab man, indifference is his only alibi in François Ozon‘s fresh take on Albert Camus‘s classic novel. (2h)
In-person introduction by Dr. Peter Schulman, Professor of French and International Studies at Old Dominion University. He has published widely on French cinema and literature and has been decorated as an Officier des Palmes Académiques by the French government.
“Miraculously, Ozon has managed to make a film about boredom without making a boring film. If nothing else, the radiant black and white aesthetic will grab you from the off and then never let go. Visually, it’s divine.” – Deborah Ross, The Spectator
“François Ozon’s lustrously beautiful and superbly realised monochrome version of Albert Camus’s novella L’Etranger has an almost supernaturally detailed sense of period and place. “ – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
“The Stranger, it turns out, is a story for our times, which makes this lovely new version doubly welcome.” – Blige Ebiri, New York Magazine, Vulture