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Rarely screened publicly over the last half century and never released on digital home media, Visconti’s The Stranger is a forceful and faithful adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic novel. Marcello Mastroianni inhabits the lead role of Meursault, a French Algerian man whose growing disengagement with social mores is employed against him after he is arrested for murder.

While staying close to the narrative machinations of Camus’ original text, Visconti powerfully conveys the absurdism of his protagonist's situation amidst the sweaty luminescence of the Algerian coastline. Mastroianni gives a compelling performance that embodies the circular melancholy of his character.

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