The Beach (film) loading up on a boat from the raft. The Beach (film) The Beach is a 2000 English-language drama thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi. Richard, a young American seeking adventure in Bangkok, travels in a drab travelers hotel in Khao San Road where he meets a young French couple, Françoise and Étienne, and he
The Stranger (Camus novel) mistress of Raymond) is a man shot and killed by Meursault on a beach in colonial Algiers. In his 1956 analysis of the novel, Carl Viggiani wrote: Victor Brombert has analysed "L'Etranger" and Sartre's "Explication de "L'Etranger"" in the philosophical context of the Absurd. Louis Hudon has dismissed characterisation of "L'Etranger" as an existentialist novel in his 1960 analysis. The 1963 study by Ignace Feuerlicht begins with an examination of the themes of alienation, in the sense of Meursault being a 'stranger' in his society. In his 1970 analysis, Leo Bersani commented that "L'Etranger" is "mediocre" in its attempt to