•
122m
AFFFF26: The Stranger
Book Tickets
Synopsis
Australian Premiere
L’Étranger
The superb new drama from multi award-winning writer/director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women, Under the Sand), THE STRANGER is a gripping adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novella about a detached young expatriate on trial for murder in 1930s French-colonised Algeria.
Summer, 1938. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin, Lost Illusions, AF FFF22), a quiet and unassuming clerk in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral. The next day he begins a casual affair with Marie (Rebecca Marder), a colleague randomly encountered at the local baths, and quickly slips back into routine. However, daily life is soon disrupted by his volatile neighbour (an excellent Pierre Lottin, My Brother’s Band, AF FFF25), who draws Meursault into a dispute involving an ex-lover. And then, one blisteringly hot afternoon, an inexplicable event occurs on a beach, one that will see Meursault’s very moral standing brought to question…
Visually resplendent with sensuous black-and-white imagery, Ozon’s elegant and masterfully realised film shines a contemporary lens on Camus' classic tale of dissociation and morality, capturing the beauty and heat of a charged society on the boil. Both impactful and mysterious, THE STRANGER is one of the major artistic highlights of this year’s Festival, and should not be missed.
2025 Venice International Film Festival | BookCiak Award
Rating
M
Length
122m
Reviews
A true gem in every respect. Ozon achieves perfection.
Exquisite. A pleasure to watch, both aesthetically and dramatically. A feast of sights, sounds and existential turmoil.
Luna Recommended
108m
A middle-aged couple invite the younger and livelier couple from the apartment upstairs for a get-together that takes an unexpected turn.
122m
A wealthy elderly woman gives hundreds of millions to a close gay artist, sparking a scandal when her daughter accuses him of exploiting her.
91m
When a charming house guest arrives, the delicate dynamic between a husband, his bride, and their devoted maid is thrown into chaos.
99m
A poignant new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece 'Les Miserables', charting the origin story of the beloved tale’s iconic protagonist.
109m
When a shepherd is found dead under mysterious circumstances, his sheep decide to solve the crime themselves.
102m
When her ex-husband reappears, with no memory of their divorce 20 years earlier, Hanne’s life with her new partner Bernd is upended.
122m
A quietly powerful drama in which intersecting lives are reshaped by loss, migration, and chance encounters.
 1.png)