Carlos Hugo Christensen was among the first Argentine directors to produce crime noir films, as early as the 1940s. Although he developed his career in industrial studios cinema, his approach to genres articulated a certain tension with respect to classical forms. In this sense, this article aims to characterize certain procedures in the film La muerte camina en la lluvia through parodic operations, incorporating Deleuze’s considerations in The Time-Image, which can explain the film’s modernity, in a seemingly close connection between modern cinema and the particularities of film noir.