film-quand-la-ville-dort-2026-10-13

WHEN THE CITY SLEEPS Tuesday 13 October · 19h THE ASPHALT JUNGLE | JOHN HUSTON | USA, 1950, 1h52 | DCP Cast: Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe… Adapted from a police novel by W.R. Burnett, The Asphalt Jungle continues to define the path of film noir that Huston had inaugurated ten years earlier in The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart in the role of detective Marlowe. This time, the 'private investigator' gives way to a 'hooligan' with a big heart, played by a masterful Sterling Hayden, although still at the beginning of his career. A classic tale of a quest for redemption in an urban space corrupted by crime and money, The Asphalt Jungle also inaugurates a sub-genre of film noir: that of the 'heist film', which, from the franchise based on Ocean's Eleven or the series La Casa de Papel, still fascinates today. Finally, we discover a Marilyn Monroe, young and radiant, in a secondary but crucial role for the relentless mechanics of the film, a masterpiece to (re)discover.