Sunday | June 3, 2018 7:00 pm

The Stranger
(Lo straniero)

Screening on Film

Directed by Luchino Visconti.
With Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier.
Italy/France/Algeria, 1967, 35mm, color, 104 min.
French and Italian with English subtitles.

The watchful eye of the sun presides over the events of The Stranger. Heat beams down as French expatriate Meursault—played by a pensive Marcello Mastroianni—glides with indifference through an unsettling Mediterranean environment in this adaptation of the Camus novel. Working under the limitations imposed by Albert Camus’ widow, Visconti had difficulty executing the film according to his own vision. Nevertheless, the result is still a fascinating interlude between Sandra and The Damned.