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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“By emphasizing Meursault’s identity as a Pied Noir, Ozon renders literal the label of ‘stranger’ and interrogates a settler’s capacity to fully integrate within their ‘chosen’ society and, toward the end of the film, their native one.” New at PB: Viviana Freyer on François Ozon’s The Stranger.

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Pied Noir Homesick Blues - Public Books

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment in history: the brutal French colonization of Algeria.

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