{"id":1085,"date":"2026-04-10T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:18:00","slug":"the-stranger-francois-ozons-polarising-take-on-an-existential-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger: Fran\u00e7ois Ozon\u2019s Polarising Take on an Existential Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17102\/the-stranger-francois-ozon-film-review-interview-albert-camus?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=the-stranger-francois-ozon-s-polarising-take-on-an-existential-classic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/2\/472080.JPG\" alt=\"The Stranger, 2026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite directing 24 films in 27 years,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16262\/a-guide-to-the-sultry-satirical-cinema-films-of-francois-ozon\">Fran\u00e7ois Ozon<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>still can\u2019t get all his projects greenlit. After 2024\u2019s When Autumn Falls, the 58-year-old French auteur wrote an original screenplay consisting of three stories, the second of which would have starred Benjamin Voisin as a suicidal man struggling with the \u201cabsurdity of the world\u201d. Financiers, though, balked at the uncommercialhellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17102\/the-stranger-francois-ozon-film-review-interview-albert-camus?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-stranger-francois-ozon-s-polarising-take-on-an-existential-classic\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite directing 24 films in 27 years,\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Ozon\u00a0still can\u2019t get all his projects greenlit. After 2024\u2019s When Autumn Falls, the 58-year-old French auteur wrote an original screenplay consisting of three stories, the second of which would have starred Benjamin Voisin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}