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Auction: 24013 - Original Vintage Film Posters
Lot: 22

A Bout de Souffle / Breathless (1960)
Original French poster
Artist: Clement Hurel (1927-2008)

Unframed: 31 x 24 in. (79 x 61 cm)

Linen backed

This was the first printing of the poster, which misspelt Godard with a 'T' at the end instead of a 'D'. This error was rectified at the time, but you can still clearly see this correction.

This is a 1960 French New Wave film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a small-time criminal, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend. This was Godard's first feature-length work and Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor. This film was one of the earliest and most influential examples of French New Wave, and along with other films released just a year earlier, brought international acclaim to this new untraditional style of French filmmaking, owing to its visual style and unconventional filming techniques.

Excellent condition, colours remaining very bright, minor restoration to folds and some small surface marks.

Material of piece: Paper, backed on linen


literature: Cinema Posters of the 20th Century, Suntory Museum, Osaka, 2001, p. 50

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£2000