France’s Ozon under the gun with big screen take on Camus classic

French director Francois Ozon has dared to do what so many other filmmakers have shied away from — adapting one of French literature’s most-read classics, Albert Camus’s “The Stranger”, for the big screen.

The “8 Women” director said this week he had rediscovered Camus’s 1942 novel after first reading it in school like so many other French teenagers — but not really understanding its deeper absurdist meaning.

“I was shocked reading it because the book was still so strong, so powerful, so…