Some novels endure the brutal test of time. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” (1926) spoke to its “lost generation” and still finds readers. “The Stranger” (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus is a ...

Prolific French director François Ozon touched down in Venice on Tuesday with his adaptation of Albert Camus’s absurdist classic The Stranger about a French expat living in colonial 1930s French ...

Confounding, disturbing and yet icily compelling, the experience of watching François Ozon’s “The Stranger” is not entirely dissimilar to that of reading Albert Camus’ 1942 classic. Wisely, Ozon only ...

When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” — considered one of France’s literary jewels for the last 80 years — he wanted to give it a ...

Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) is a man of little words and fewer deeds. He idles away, smoking, brooding and gazing at the world with zen-like detachment, barely shedding a tear at his mother’s funeral ...

On the surface, it retells part of the story of Albert Camus’s 1942 novel The Stranger. In that book the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach and is sentenced to death. The Meursault ...

A ranked guide to Albert Camus and his most powerful works, from early attempts to lasting masterpieces that continue to ...

'The Stranger,' financed and produced by Gaumont, world premieres today in competition at the Venice Film Festival. When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ ...