Rebecca Marder nude in The Stranger (2025)

This is Francois Ozon’s take on a famous work by Albert Camus.

The Stranger (French: L’Étranger) is a 1942 novella by Albert Camus, a key work of existentialist and absurdist literature, following the emotionally detached protagonist Meursault in French Algeria in the 1930s, as he navigates his mother’s death, a senseless murder, and his subsequent trial, which condemns him more for his indifference to societal norms than for the crime itself. The novel explores themes of life’s meaninglessness, the “nakedness of man” in the face of the absurd, and society’s rejection of those who refuse to “play the game” of conventional emotion.

The novella was previous adapted into a highly regarded film in 1967 by Luchino Visconti, with Marcello Mastroianni in the lead role.

Writing about the new version, Variety said:

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’ classic.

IMDb: 7.1
Metacritic: 79/100
Tomato Meter: 88%

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Footnote 1: I’m not sure that is Rebecca in Simone Veil. It’s a dimly-lit holocaust scene with dozens of naked women, and I’m not sure who is who.