Sandra

The Stranger

y luego las tías somos las histriónicas 😭

nathansnook

The Stranger

𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐃: 𝘈𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦? 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓: 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. Had to run to this after Ozon’s recent adaptation (https://letterboxd.com/bulgogiboi/film/the-stranger-2025-1/). I much prefer this faithful adaptation for its melodramatic tones. Surprised by Karina, who is beautiful as always. Though Visconti’s flairs interfere with the politics of existentialism with the way the camera pans and zooms into certain moments to heighten tension, it suffers the same issues that Ozon tried to fix. One, length. Two, court room scene. Three, tone. Here, where everything is colored, I wonder what the effect would be if it were in black and white. I very much preferred the jail scene here where it creates a greater indifference between our poor Meursault and the Arabs. Layers the tensions of Algeria as a country and Algerians as a people during the time, whereas Ozon remains rather complacent. All in all, it seems quite difficult to adapt this Camus novel in fear of the dialogue reaching moments of camp. For humor destroys constructions of existentialism in aims for absurdity. Things can be absurd. But things can’t be funny.

DamianSuarez

The Stranger

Entre un juego de sombras explendido Stranger es uno de los films convencionales más resaltables de la filmografia de Orson Welles, es una manera discreta y sutil de introducir su irregular guion entre puesta en escena excepcional y actuaciones impecables, un melodrama perfeccionista en suspenso.