Lo straniero 1967

TIME Magazine: Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing -- and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: The result is a totally schematic vulgarization of Camus' philosophical treatise in novel form. Read more

New York Times: Because The Stranger deserves so much more, it is all the more disheartening to see an effort so painstakingly loyal wash out as a mere story line. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Visconti, like Camus, realizes that the meaning of The Stranger is not to be found in the plot but in the mood. The mood is ennui, the dominant emotion of a man who hardly cares enough to tell his own story. Read more