Interview With "The Stranger" Filmmaker François Ozon

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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"The Stranger" is a 2025 drama film written and directed by François Ozon, based on Albert Camus's 1942 novel "The Stranger". Benjamin Voisin stars in the lead role of Meursault, alongside Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, and Denis Lavant. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion. Ozon was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in NY, LA, San Francisco, Washington DC, Portland, Indianapolis, Baltimore, with a national expansion to follow from Music Box Films. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is Dan Baer's interview
0:03.9	of the director and writer for The Stranger, Francois Ozong.
0:07.9	Today, I'm returned to the bin.
0:10.3	I've opened the eyes and...
0:13.5	I've seen your head, posed on my vandre.
0:16.6	When I opened the eyes, you're not there.
0:23.9	Why have broken this bonner who we're
0:25.7	going to be this man?
0:30.5	Mr. Norso?
0:36.1	Welcome everyone to the next best picture podcast where we are talking with Francois Ozone,
0:42.7	the writer and director of the new film The Stranger.
0:46.3	Francois, it's so wonderful to have you on the show today.
0:49.6	Thank you to invite me.
0:51.7	Thank you for joining us.
0:53.2	I'm very excited to talk to you about this film.
0:58.1	The Albert Camus novella on which this is based is one of my favorites.
1:03.8	I read it while studying from my philosophy degree in college.
1:08.6	And watching this felt like reading it again.
1:11.6	It was an incredible experience.
1:14.6	And I wanted to ask you where your intention for adapting this story came from.
1:20.6	Because watching it, having not read it for a long time, it felt like the malaise that Merceau, the lead character
1:29.1	is feeling, feels very contemporary.
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