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John Huston’s elegiac anti-western The Misfits, Marilyn Monroe’s final completed film, marks the centenary of the screen icon’s birth. Written by Arthur Miller, the film unfolds across a stark, sun-scorched Nevada landscape, where broken-hearted cowboys, drifting dreamers and fractured marriages collide in a world already slipping into the past. Tender, melancholy and quietly strange, The Misfits dismantles the mythology of the American West to reveal lives haunted by promises that could never be fulfilled. At its centre, Monroe gives one of her most affecting performances—fragile, luminous and deeply human, carrying within it the ache of everything that might have been.