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Let’s get metaphysical! Existentialist cinema is back, if anyone cares
The philosophy was embraced by film noir, the French New Wave and modern hitmen questioning life’s purpose. Now dust off your turtlenecks, for SirÄt and a new version of Albert Camus’ The Stranger look set to make ennui on-trend again
“For it all to be consummated, to feel less alone, I had only to wish for a big crowd on the day of my execution, and for them to greet me with cries of hate.†The lacerating signoff of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger isn’t a collection of words you’ll see appearing as life advice in some influencer’s Instagram caption any time soon. In the age of vapid social media self-help, François Ozon’s new film adaptation of the existentialist masterpiece rears up like a great monolith. Eighty-four years after the novel was published, that’s rather unexpected; as far as IP goes, L’Étranger (The Stranger) was probably some way behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs on the film industry’s revival list. Does this mean that existentialism is suddenly back in vogue? Or is the film just a farewell tour for every angsty student’s favourite source of tattoo quotes?
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Languor and the Mediterranean coast go together, it turns out, like François Ozon and Albert Camus. The prolific French filmmaker, who is giving the long-dead workhorse Rainer Werner Fassbinder a run for his money in terms of annual output, adapts Camus’ economical existential novel “L’Étranger” for a new film, told in black-and-white, by the same name.
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