Overview
- German cinemas open the year with three new releases on January 1: François Ozon’s Der Fremde (The Stranger), Bon Voyage – Bis hierher und noch weiter, and Holy Meat.
- Ozon’s adaptation is shot in black and white, stays close to Camus’s text, is set in late‑1930s Algiers, and was filmed in Tangier after drawing mostly positive reviews in France following its October 2025 release.
- Benjamin Voisin stars as Meursault alongside Rebecca Marder and Pierre Lottin, with Voisin reuniting with Ozon after Summer 85, a performance that earned him a César nomination.
- A new Stern review praises the film’s sensory precision, its handling of existential themes, and its nods to the colonial context, while noting a minor critique of the eroticized portrayal of Meursault’s relationship with Marie.
- Bon Voyage follows an elderly woman’s secret trip toward an assisted‑dying appointment in Switzerland under director Enya Baroux, and Holy Meat offers Alison Kuhn’s provocative rural farce set in a fictional Swabian village featuring Pit Bukowski, Jens Albinus, and Homa Faghiri.