The Misfits

Roslyn arrives in Nevada to get a divorce. There she meets a ragged older cowboy. Their tentative affair is tested when they meet a sensitive rodeo rider and set out to search for wild mustang horses in the mountains. Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay while his marriage to Marilyn Monroe was crumbling. It is possible to see this work as a beautiful mirror of their relationship. The Misfits is a mythological film – Gable died days after the final shoot, Monroe followed a year later, and the whole picture is soaked in an atmosphere of decay and despair. But 60 years on, it is simply an exquisite classic that one cannot take their eyes off: the stunning B&W cinematography, the electrifying presence of its stars – whose glow does not cover their fragility, and the feeling that beneath the surface raging emotions threaten to erupt but cannot find an outlet. A must-see.