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 Algeria who indifferently kills a local man.

It is the third fiction adaption of the novella after the 1967 version by Luchino Visconti, starring Marcello Mastroianni, and 2001 Turkish film Fate , which played in Cannes Un Certain Regard.

Anticipation is riding high on the Lido as to whether Ozon has pulled it off with his black-and-white adaptation, starring Benjamin Voisin as protagonist Meursault and Rebecca Varder as his lover.

At the press conference for the Golden Lion contender, Ozon revealed he had hit on the idea of adapting The Stranger after failing to secure financing fo

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