Bob (le flambeur) as the Anti-Meursault.

Recently I re-watched Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur (1956), a loving ode to American gangster pictures and one of the first solid French New Wave films. In the beginning, there is a sequence where an acquaintance of the titular character asks him for money to be bailed out of beating his girlfriend a little too hard. This acquaintance is a pimp, which Bob does not like. All of this really reminded me of Albert Camus' The Stranger, when Meursault's neighbor Raymond, also a pimp, asks him to help take revenge on his girlfriend, whom Raymond believes is cheating on him. Meursault does this with just about no persuading, as he sees no reason not to. When Bob is asked for the money by his acquaintance, he tells him no and to get out. In this sense, Bob comes off as an anti-Meursault.