The NR took two Blésoises literature professors to see “L’Étranger”

Elise Rousseau and Aurélie Frioux, literature teachers at the Robert-Badinter and Dessaignes high schools in Blés, know The Stranger of Camus at your fingertips. And they are used to introducing it to younger generations. We took them to see the eponymous film adaptation by François Ozon, at the Lobis in Blois. They give us their impressions.

“I was a little skeptical, it’s risky to adapt a work written in the first person, especially with a character, Meursault, who never expresses anythingsays Élise Rousseau. And I was very pleasantly surprised: the film captures the atmosphere well, taking us back to an era. However, I was scared for the first few minutes, I believed that Ozon had engaged in an almost caricatured didactic style exercise. But he quickly becomes more subtle, he has digested more contemporary questions, like those of Kamel Daoud….

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