Lex

The Stranger

Foreboding and bleak, almost true to the passages however we merely feel the personal insights briefly hence we are left questioning everything (perhaps that's the intention behind it). Gorgeous back and white cinematic lense that helps to create the atmosphere, with some choice that were modernized compare to the book on colonialism therefore the lack of purposeful racism and colonialism make it an almost perfect adaptation

francesco-crispino

The Stranger

La mia recensionequi (https://youtu.be/uPJU8DkWbYE?si=45a1HGrhZlsmd8Bb)

nathansnook

The Stranger

«𝘋𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦, 𝘪𝘤𝘪, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘪 𝘮’𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥. 𝘈𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘪, 𝘫𝘦 𝘯’𝘢𝘪 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘢. 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘷é𝘳𝘪𝘵é 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘲𝘶’𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘑’𝘢𝘪 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘤𝘪, 𝘫𝘦 𝘯’𝘢𝘪 𝘱𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘢, 𝘫’𝘢𝘪 𝘷é𝘤𝘶 𝘥’𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘢ç𝘰𝘯, 𝘫’𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘶 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘳𝘦 𝘥'𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘦. 𝘌𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴? 𝘙𝘪𝘦𝘯. 𝘙𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘯'𝘢 𝘥'𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘌𝘵 𝘫𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘪…𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦!» You can count on Ozon for a perfect picture as his framing and blocking is always incredible. You can also count on Ozon for being very French enough to add faith to an adaptation. It’s a tidy script where the first half is pitch-perfect, but the last half where the courtroom scenes take place become dull and ineffective. Voisin is the perfect stand-in for Camus, reminiscent of boywonder Starkey in Luca’s Queer (https://letterboxd.com/bulgogiboi/film/queer-2024/). Very nice to look at. Charmed even further in the black and white presentation. Unfortunately, we’re a few years too late in adapting the Camus novel. I feel like it only worked in the melodrama of the sixties, to which brought me to my viewing of Lo Straniero (https://letterboxd.com/bulgogiboi/film/the-stranger-1967/), which is also quite faithful, but suffers from the same dullness found in Ozon’s adaptation. Where swish-pans and zoom ins and outs give us trying understanding and disbelief in the Visconti picture, Ozon approaches it all from existentialism’s complacent point of view. *I would think Ozon would be interested in exploring the homoerotic tensions through subtext, but his commitment to faithful adaptation wins over. Perhaps maybe in the future we will see an adaptation where queerism can be discovered. Yes yes, I stand by making everything gay, at least, every once in a while.