A great classic of the 20th century, Albert Camus The Outsider suddenly has a new gay twist!

This month saw the Borderlines Film Festival premier of gay film director Francois Ozon`s tale of suspense and alienation.

Shot in moody Film Noir we see a handsome Benjamin Voisin as the wondrous young  Meursault.  He is, as so many of us were, , unable to comprehend why everyone else seems to think differently. A fiancee in the waiting, Ozon`s  unnerving interpenetration of a French African beach cruising scene and that soundtrack by the Cure – this is a great film of a great book. What else could Camus have achieve had his life not been life cut short?

Having also written The Plague, he was killed aged 46, in his publisher's Facel Vega whilst rushing back to Paris. He chose not to go on the train. It came across to me as fresh today as the paperback was to so many teenagers, from the 1050`s onwards - the Existentialist's handbook.

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