Overview
- Screening in competition at Venice 82, the film presents Ozon’s personal re-reading of Camus’s novel.
- Ozon foregrounds the colonial context, emphasizing Meursault’s line about killing an Arab and France’s longstanding amnesia about Algeria.
- The production uses black-and-white photography, a decision born from budget considerations that evolved into a stylistic choice.
- Unable to shoot in Algeria, the team reconstructed Algiers in Tangier to realize the period setting.
- Benjamin Voisin leads as Meursault with an immersive on-set approach, and Italian distribution is reported by BIM and Lucky Red.