EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to François Ozon ’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ cult classic novel The Stranger ( L’Étranger ) following its buzzy world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Benjamin Voisin , who previously worked with Ozon on Summer of 85 , stars as protagonist Meursault, the Algeria-set novella’s French expat protagonist who senselessly kills a local man on a beach. Rebecca Marder ( The Crime Is Mine ) plays his lover Marie Cardona.

They are joined in the cast by Pierre Lotin (The Marching Band), Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) and Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall).

The official synopsis reads: “Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear.

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