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L'étranger

Original title: Lo straniero
  • 1967
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
3.4K
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Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina in L'étranger (1967)
Drama

A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.

  • Director
    • Luchino Visconti
  • Writers
    • Albert Camus
    • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
    • Georges Conchon
  • Stars
    • Marcello Mastroianni
    • Anna Karina
    • Bernard Blier
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    3.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Luchino Visconti
    • Writers
      • Albert Camus
      • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
      • Georges Conchon
    • Stars
      • Marcello Mastroianni
      • Anna Karina
      • Bernard Blier
    • 26User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 nominations total

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    Marcello Mastroianni
    Marcello Mastroianni
    • Arthur Meursault
    Anna Karina
    Anna Karina
    • Marie Cardona
    Bernard Blier
    Bernard Blier
    • Defense Counsel
    Alfred Adam
    Alfred Adam
    • L'avocat général
    Pierre Bertin
    Pierre Bertin
    • Judge
    Angela Luce
    Angela Luce
    • Madame Masson
    Jacques Herlin
    Jacques Herlin
    • Director of Home
    Mimmo Palmara
    Mimmo Palmara
    • Masson
    Jean-Pierre Zola
    Jean-Pierre Zola
    • Employer
    • (as Jean Pierre Zola)
    Joseph Marechal
    • Salamano
    Jacques Monod
    Jacques Monod
    • Prison guard
    Mohamed Cheritel
    • Arab
    Vittorio Duse
    Vittorio Duse
    • Lawyer
    Brahim Hadjadj
    Brahim Hadjadj
    • Arab
    Valentino Macchi
    Saada Rahlem
    • Arab
    Marc Laurent
    • Emmanuel
    Paolo Herzl
    • Director
      • Luchino Visconti
    • Writers
      • Albert Camus
      • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
      • Georges Conchon
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    User reviews26

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    10ted-129

    Visually hypnotic adaptation of Camus' L'etranger

    Visconti brings to life the Camus novel with the minimum of dialog and surreal visuals.

    Algiers sweats. The sun's glare beats down and doesn't let up--right up to the courtroom scene where one watches a dazed Mastroianni in the foreground while the fans of the jury members move in constant motion in a soft-focus background. Much of the film has a dreamlike feel that fuses with the existential blankness felt by Mastroianni's character.

    I recall this film playing frequently in San Francisco at the Times Theater back in the early stoner 70's. And with the 70's, this film has all but disappeared. One only hopes that all of Visconti's films will someday make it to DVD--but especially The Stranger!
    7treywillwest

    nope

    About as direct an adaptation from book to movie as you can get, this film version of Camus' famous novel by director Luchino Visconti raises interesting questions about the inherent difference between page and screen.

    As much as Camus's first-person prose is included in the film in the form of voice-over, the fact remains that a movie can't get us inside the head of a character like a book can. This is highlighted all the more by the fact that Marcello Mastroianni is outstanding as Camus' Meursault, one couldn't ask for a better performance. Nonetheless, the sense one gets here of understanding (or not) Meursault's perspective pales to that of the novel.

    On the other hand, even the most vivid prose cannot transport us to the physical reality of a time and place like a well made film. This version of The Stranger is as much about occupied Algeria in the early twentieth century as it is about Meursault or any of the philosophical questions that Camus was wrestling with in his novel. This version is more overtly political, literally showing the ways in which racism and colonialism shape the interactions of the characters.
    7JuguAbraham

    Capturing the novel's mood well with commendable performances by all the actors

    Very truthful to the novel of Albert Camus, capturing the book's atheistic and existential mood. All the actors (specially Mastroianni) are very close to what the novel suggests. Yet the film is not a major work of Visconti--it merely adapts an important literary work. One of the best visual sequences in the film is of Mr Mersault sitting on a chair viewing his mother's closed coffin at a distance with another lady sitting closer to the coffin with her nose covered. Throughout the film Visconti underscores the heat and the oppressive humid weather that led to the death of the Arab. A second important sequence involves a kind act of an Arab prisoner who offers Mersault a makeshift pillow and a cigarette in a crowded prison cell. The "bad" Arab can be a "good' one!

    The book is better than the film despite all the efforts of Visconti and his talented team, which included three other co-scriptwriters.
    7brogmiller

    "I killed an Arab."

    Inspired by Albert Camus' seminal work of 1942, one is hardly likely to see a more faithful or indeed reverential adaptation than this.

    It is easy to get bogged down in discussions as to whether or not Camus' piece is Existentionalist. He himself denied this and it is probably safer to say that if anything, it represents the philosophy of the Absurd.

    The novel is written as a first person narrative by the 'Stranger' of the title although I have always felt the alternative title of 'The Outsider' to be far more appropriate. Arthur Meursault by name, he is the sheikh of apathy and his total indifference is evident in both his manner and such utterings as "It doesn't really matter" or "It makes no difference one way or the other." He cannot bring himself to show any grief at his mother's funeral and reacts impassively to his adoring girlfriend's suggestion of marriage. He is even unable to give a reason for his apparently motiveless shooting of an Arab other than "I think it was the sun." He simply does not behave as society dictates he ought and for his inability to play the game he pays the ultimate penalty.........

    I cannot agree with the view that Marcello Mastroianni is miscast in the role. He had previously worked with Visconti in the cruelly underrated 'Le Notte Bianchi' of 1957 and during the intervening years he had become the finished article and excelled for Fellini, Antonioni, Bolognini, Germi and de Sica. Very few actors convey blankness or lassitude quite as well as he which makes his final rant against the religious platitudes of the prison chaplain so dramatically effective. By all accounts he lobbied for the role and turns in a splendid performance.

    Visconti is the most 'operatic' of directors which is why he seems an odd choice for this austere, almost Bresson-esque material. He has of course the services of a fine cast, notably a touching Anna Karina as Meursault's lover, Georges Geret as a pimp, Bernard Blier as Meursault's feeble defence lawyer, Georges Wilson as an evangelical examining magistrate and Bruno Cremer as the prison chaplain.

    The sun-baked imagery and oppressive heat are wonderfully captured by Visconti's chosen cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno whilst Piero Piccioni, much favoured by Bolognini, contributes one of his most offbeat scores.

    This is not really to do with plot but is all about 'mood'. Both novel and film are pervaded by a sense of 'Ennui', that evocative word that covers so many negative emotions.

    The ultimate challenge is to make a film about boredom without its being boring. Has Visconti succeeded? On balance, with minor reservations, I think he has.
    10arichmondfwc

    The Camus of Visconti

    A naked room, a dead old woman lies on a wooden coffin, across the coffin we see her son. His head down, his face slightly contorted. We move in to notice with a chill that he's just trying to get some dirt from under his fingernails. Mersault. Visconti's Mersault inspired by Camus's Mersault. The film was attacked in its day and the Albert Camus's purists shouted blue murder or worse, they didn't say a word. Visconti knew what he was doing. He chose Marcelo Mastroianni to play Mersault. By that choice alone he was departing from Camus's intentions and yet, if you read the book today and see the film today, Mastroianni is Camus's Mersault. It is the driest of all Visconti films. His toughest. Mastroianni gives a performance that defies description. If you've seen more than once,"XXX" by choice, I don't promise you that you'll surrender, automatically, to the power of this film, but I can assure you that both films belong to the same Universe, yours, ours. Give it a try. Then, you tell me.

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    • Trivia
      Twenty years before Visconti's adaptation, while Camus was still alive, the novelist had been approached with the idea of making The Stranger as a film by director Jean Renoir.
    • Crazy credits
      The restoration of the film was carried out by: the National Film School - National Film Library, as part of the 'Visconti Project' in collaboration with Cinecitta Holding International Picture Investment Limited. The work was carried out in the spring & summer 1999, at the Technicolor Laboratory in Rome, under the supervision of Giuseppe Rotunno.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Costumes from the Films of Visconti (1978)

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    • Release date
      • October 20, 1967 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
      • Algeria
    • Languages
      • French
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • The Stranger
    • Filming locations
      • Gaeta, Latina, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
      • Master Film
      • Marianne Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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