A French crime film with subtitles, 122 minutes, 2025. Director: François Ozon. Starring: Benjamin Voisin, Pierre Lottin, Rebecca Marder. Not even his mother’s death disrupts the daily routine of Meursault, a French civil servant in Algiers. Shortly after the funeral, the utterly indifferent Meursault shoots an Arab man on the beach with whom he had previously had a run-in. Public opinion is divided as to which is the greater crime: the murder, or the fact that the man did not publicly mourn his mother. Albert Camus’s novella *The Stranger*, published in 1942, is one of the seminal works of French literature and the first example of Camus’s philosophical absurdism.