The phrase "a foreign setting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location or environment that is not familiar or native to a person or group, often in the context of literature, film, or travel.
Example: "The novel takes place in a foreign setting, immersing the reader in a culture vastly different from their own."
Alternatives: "an unfamiliar environment" or "a distant locale".
Like its stablemate, Wallander, Zen relies on the jarring conceit of sticking a cast of British actors in a foreign setting to play foreigners with British accents.
A foreign setting became something like a structural principle of fiction with Henry James and EM Forster (as well as others such as Ford Madox Ford and Edith Wharton).
That the idea of travel is finding your own way through a foreign setting, picking your own favorite taco stand or souvenir stall, not merely retracing someone else's experiences laid out in a guide.
And although Just allows himself a couple of stock ugly Americans — people who "adore" France but hate the French — he remains a master at using a foreign setting to highlight the peculiarities of American life.
In a foreign setting, the most mundane tasks took on a strange kind of significance.
It is hard for me to conceive of going through four years of college these days without trying to spend at least some time in a foreign setting.
But as he learned from working in India, where canary yellow is virtually a neutral, a foreign set of guidelines prevail.
By duplicative HGT, Hao et al. mean the transfer and integration of a foreign set of genes, a single gene, or a gene fragment from donor to recipient mtDNA that does not instantly replace its endogenous counterpart.
One of the challenges of a foreign-set episode is to write the local dialogue and 24 includes some swanky simultaneous translation.
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly graded the film with a 'B–' rating, summarizing it as a "lulling, happy-face story of retirement-age self-renewal, set in a shimmering, weltering, jewel-colored India", and that it succeeded in selling "something safe and sweet, in a vivid foreign setting, to an underserved share of the moviegoing market".
Conventional wisdom says that for a movie like this one with a historical, foreign setting and fantastical elements— to succeed in the US, it needs a big (preferably white, male) star.
