“Unwanted Book”: How much does a foreigner’s first criticism, adapting a movie to one of the most read novels of all time?

After Lucino Visconti, in 1967, no one took the risk of adapting Albert Camus to the cinema. Before François Ozone. The French director will attack this monument of literature to offer a new version – represented by Venice Mostra this Tuesday, September 2.

What is critical welcome to foreigners?

By Benjamin Voisin – the lead role -, Rebecca Marder and Pierre Lotin, adapting to the spectators’ curiosity. Will François Ozone succeed to make one of the most beloved and respected works in the world?

According to the first feedback, there is a film director. In his criticism, Paris Writing: “A book that is undesirable, but Ozon has succeeded in success: his feature film is a wonderful success. Faithful to the novel, in addition to the fact that the filmmaker developed two more characters (…), the film bets the mediocre black -white.“

The same enthusiasm to the side Television Who will judge an adaptation ”Perfectly successful, loyal and traitor as it should be“The newspaper also emphasizes the interpretation of Benjamin Voisin as”Prominent“, As well as Le Figaro Who talks about the actor “Impressive“

And the American press?

In the English press, criticism is also positive. Familiar Hollywood reporter Writing: “All this can seem a little … Intellectual, French, and in fact, Ozone’s film is happy to watch both aesthetically and dramatically, even if it is slightly in the third action. “

Another excellent movie magazine, Variety Continues the same impulse: “The main success of the ozone film is to adapt to literature without the literature and honor of the novel’s secrets, without attempting to solve it.“

IndusierIn turn, it is positive with some nuances: “All the works around the atmosphere are charming and the film gets a fever of dreams, but as an obvious adaptation of the book about the birth of an existentialist soul, it has no courage and strangeness. “

The site of criticism The following best picture Recognizes the visual beauty and portrait of the film “Strangely convincing“The main character”Unusual“But he regrets some lack of rhythm.

In ForeignerAlbert Camus told the story of Mercury Mercury, a living in Algeria. Granted to his mother’s death – for whom he did not cry during the funeral – the hero was tried and arrested after an irreparable commission: he shot a man revolver.

It is more than a few weeks to wait for the French community feedback to discover and know whether this adaptation will be a great success in cinemas.

Release in French Rooms scheduled for October 29