French Friday Movie
Join us on 24 JULY 2026
for
the stranger
(L'Étranger)
6pm Little French market
7pm movie screening
Cinema 2, Event cinemas kotara
drama / FRANCE / 2025 / 122 MINS / m
(Mature themes, violence, sex scenes, coarse language and nudity)
In French with English subtitles
WINNER - 2026 CÉSAR AWARDS - Best Supporting Actor (Lottin)
WINNER - 2026 LUMIÈRE AWARDS - Best Film, Actor (Voisin) & Cinematography
Directed by: François Ozon
Cast: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, Denis Lavant
Summer, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming clerk in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a colleague randomly encountered at the local baths, and quickly slips back into routine. However, daily life is soon disrupted by his volatile neighbour, who draws Meursault into an altercation involving an ex-lover. And then, one blisteringly hot afternoon, an inexplicable event occurs on a beach, one that will see Meursault’s very moral standing brought to question…
"A true gem in every respect. Ozon achieves perfection with a sublime adaptation of Albert
Camus' legendary novel that is captivating, refined, faithful and yet highly personal."
Fabian Lemercier
CINEUROPA.
"Lustrously beautiful and superbly realised. Ozon, with an almost supernaturally detailed sense of period and place, passionately
honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race."
Peter Bradshaw
THE GUARDIAN
Contact us
contact@afnewcastle.com.au
Please note that there are no office hours.
Alliance Française de Newcastle
63 Scott Street, Newcastle, NSW 2300
Completely accessible
Tramway Stop "Newcastle Beach"
Postal
PO Box 505
Jesmond, NSW 2299
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which the Alliance Française de Newcastle stands and remind people that
we live and work on Aboriginal land.
We pay our respects to elders, past, present and emerging.


