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Designed in the standard grande affiche format (120 x 160 cm), this is a preserved piece of cinematic advertising, folded as originally distributed to French theatres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"521\" data-end=\"1128\"\u003eThe visual treatment is pure provocation: a sensuous, airbrushed illustration of Kim Novak, all tousled peroxide and parted lips, rendered in painterly tones of peach, crimson, and aqua. It’s both lurid and poised — the aesthetic of vintage exploitation elevated by scale and bold graphic control. This image doesn’t just sell a film; it performs it, staging the mythic persona of the self-destructive starlet at the centre of Aldrich’s film. The French retitling — \u003cem data-start=\"987\" data-end=\"1008\"\u003eLe Démon des Femmes\u003c\/em\u003e — reframes the narrative in sharper psychological terms, suggesting possession, danger, and seduction in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1309\"\u003eA textbook example of late-60s poster art at the intersection of eroticism, trauma and myth, and a perfect document of how American cinema was reimagined in French cultural space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1330\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1330\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1358\"\u003eTitle: Le Démon des Femmes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1402\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Robert Aldrich (director)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1414\"\u003eDate: 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1462\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset lithograph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1513\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Folded cinema poster on paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1541\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 120 x 160\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1559\"\u003eLanguage: French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1616\"\u003eCondition: Vintage, original folds, otherwise excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1676\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: MGM \/ Metrocolor (France distribution)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1727\"\u003ePrinted in France for the 1968 theatrical release\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472715116882,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/postersetup_2.jpg?v=1768336248"},{"product_id":"xx-x-antonioni-120x160-copy-1","title":"Le Mépris (1963)— Bardot \/ Godard \/ Bleu blessé — FRENCH POSTER 120x160","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"110\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eThis original French cinema poster for \u003cem data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"160\"\u003eLe Mépris\u003c\/em\u003e, printed for the film’s 1963 theatrical release, is a defining artefact of Nouvelle Vague iconography. Measuring 120 x 160 cm, in the standard grande affiche format, the poster arrives folded as originally distributed to cinemas — its creases tracing the path of a film that has become a touchstone of modern European cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"967\"\u003eJean-Luc Godard’s adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s novel is a study in disintegration — of love, authorship, cinema itself — and this poster crystallises that fracture in a stark palette of bruised blue and overlaid photomontage. Brigitte Bardot appears twice: once nude, soft and aloof; once coldly clothed, turning away, unreachably distant. Michel Piccoli in a hat, Fritz Lang at a distance, the film set within the image — all the parts of the production turned into symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"1208\"\u003eEverything here is surface and sign, which is exactly what \u003cem data-start=\"1028\" data-end=\"1039\"\u003eLe Mépris\u003c\/em\u003e was about. This isn’t just a poster, it’s a mise en abyme: a poster about a film about the impossibility of films, presented as a piece of immaculate commercial design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1229\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1229\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003eTitle: Le Mépris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1292\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Jean-Luc Godard (director)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1304\"\u003eDate: 1963\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1306\" data-end=\"1352\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset lithograph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1354\" data-end=\"1403\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Folded cinema poster on paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1405\" data-end=\"1431\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 120 x 160\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1449\"\u003eLanguage: French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1451\" data-end=\"1506\"\u003eCondition: Vintage, original folds, otherwise excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1555\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Forum (France distribution)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1606\"\u003ePrinted in France for the 1963 theatrical release\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472729698642,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/postersetup_3.jpg?v=1768336833"},{"product_id":"les-vacances-de-m-hulot-jacques-tati-france-1953-80-60-cm","title":"Les Vacances de M. 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