VENICE — Adapting a book for the screen is always "a betrayal," French director François Ozon says, but in bringing Albert Camus' "The Stranger" to the Venice Film Festival he hopes to generate fresh ...

Prolific French director François Ozon touched down in Venice on Tuesday with his adaptation of Albert Camus’s absurdist classic The Stranger about a French expat living in colonial 1930s French ...

When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” — considered one of France’s literary jewels for the last 80 years — he wanted to give it a ...

A focused examination of Meursault from Albert Camus’s 'The Stranger', tracing how emotional restraint becomes a moral ...

François Ozon’s Albert Camus adaptation The Stranger mustered a seven-minute ovation to cries of “bravo” on Tuesday as it premiered in competition at Venice. Presented in black and white, although it ...

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’ 1942 classic. Wisely, Ozon only ...

"You carry a burden of sin. You need liberation." The first festival trailer has debuted for the next new film by acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon, his second film this year following When ...

There is a chameleonic quality to François Ozon; unlike many auteurs, he does not simply remake the same film in different guises. The cool, voyeuristic gaze of Charlotte Rampling in the psychosexual ...

EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ cult classic novel The Stranger (L’Étranger) following its buzzy world premiere at the Venice Film ...

'The Stranger,' financed and produced by Gaumont, world premieres today in competition at the Venice Film Festival. When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ ...