As part of the Alliance Français French Film Festival 2026, weare pleased to invite AFTV members to a screening of l'Étranger, the superb new drama from multi award-winning writer/director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women, Under the Sand). L'Étranger is a gripping adaptation of Albert Camus' landmark novella about a detached young expatriate on trial for murder in 1930s French-colonised Algeria.
Summer, 1938. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin, Lost Illusions, AF FFF22), a quiet and unassuming clerk in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral. The next day he begins a casual affair with Marie (Rebecca Marder), a colleague randomly encountered at the local baths, and quickly slips back into routine. However, daily life is soon disrupted by his volatile neighbour (an excellent Pierre Lottin, My Brother's Band, AF FFF25), who draws Meursault into a dispute 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…
Visually resplendent with sensuous black-and-white imagery, Ozon's elegant and masterfully realised film shines a contemporary lens on
Camus' classic tale of dissociation and morality, capturing the beauty and heat of a charged society on the boil. Both impactful and
mysterious, THE STRANGER is one of the major artistic highlights of this year's Festival, and should not be missed.
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Location Palace Como, The Como Centre, Level 1/299 Toorak Road South Yarra
Date Sunday 22 March
Time 10.45am (film start)
Cost $7.50 per ticket, 2 tickets allowed per member
Bookings close Friday 13 March (unless booked out sooner)
As part of the Alliance Français French Film Festival 2026, we are pleased to invite AFTV members to a screening of l'Étranger, the superb new drama from multi award-winning writer/director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women, Under the Sand). L'Étranger is a gripping adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novella about a detached young expatriate on trial for murder in 1930s French-colonised Algeria.
It gives us great pleasure to invite Upper Primary and Lower Secondary French teachers to an 'EPI workshop with Gianfranco Conti'.
Date Monday 25 May
Venue Catholic Leadership Centre, East Melbourne
Time 9.00am - 3.45pm