Directors' Fortnight.
Pale Australia serves as an implacable setting for
The Stranger
, a capital thriller from which we do not come out unscathed.
We first meet Henry Teague (Sean Harris).
Bearded, silent, always on the alert, with a ferret's nose on the lookout, this guy who lowers his eyes asks only to be forgotten.
However, he soon befriends a stranger, as shaggy and hairy as him.
One will lead the other into a vast and powerful criminal organization, thus offering him the possibility of redeeming himself after a violent past and making a new start.
But what Henry doesn't know is that Mark (notably sober Joel Edgerton) isn't who he says he is.
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