‘The Stranger’ Review: François Ozon Adapts the Camus Classic into a Sharply Cinematic Enigma

Confounding, disturbing and yet icily compelling, the experience of watching François Ozon’s “The Stranger” is not entirely dissimilar to that of reading the 1942 classic novel of alienation and dissociation by Albert Camus. Wisely, Ozon only rarely goes beyond the text; instead he invests signifiant creative energy into mimicking the affectless but oddly seductive tone […]