AroView: Immaculately shot in black-and-white, this is a stunning adaptation of Albert Camus’ existential crime novella centred on Meursault, a young Frenchman whose apparent moral indifference leads to tragedy in an occupied Algiers of 1938.

“The most crucial thing that Ozon’s film gets right are the moral, indeed philosophical considerations that build its central character.” ~Zhuo-Ning Su, The Film Stage

“One of Ozon’s richest and most satisfying works in years — that rarest of literary adaptations, one that honors a foundational text precisely by finding something new to say.” ~Ben Croll, TheWrap

“Camus’ formidable antihero may be lost to his own demons, as well as to the demons of colonialism, but Ozon boldly suggests that the memory of his Algerian victim may live on as a harbinger of what’s to come…” ~Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter