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 ...

Some novels endure the brutal test of time. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” (1926) spoke to its “lost generation” and still finds readers. “The Stranger” (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus is a ...

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 debate ...

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 ...

'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’ ...

On the surface, it retells part of the story of Albert Camus’s 1942 novel The Stranger. In that book the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach and is sentenced to death. The Meursault ...

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 ...