A very pleasant surprise about this story of a past hoodlum (magnificent Françoise Arnoul) coming back to Paris for a business rendez-vous with her husband and spending a night back in the area of her youth, meeting her old friends more than ever surexcited. We see Françoise Arnoul in great scenes of rock and roll dances. All the scenes with black leather hoodlums are much less cliché than Hollywood tennage movies completely stupid. In "Asphalte", the atmosphere is strong and moody, these hoodlums look like film noir characters, espacially the bartender, one of my favorite in this movie, you can't miss him. Also the taxi driver and of course Marcel Bozzuffi as the violent ex lover. Not very fan of Massino Girotti, quite dull as the husband. Fine parisian settings with the rich people in luxury cabarets and at the hotel Crillon, and hoodlums in lost Paris.
Review of Asphalte
