{"title":"GALLERY \/ PRINT \/  Film posters","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"199\"\u003eThe Art of the FILM Poster\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"614\"\u003eBefore trailers dominated screens and algorithms curated our viewing habits, it was the poster—bold, enigmatic, and hanging outside cinemas—that made people fall in love with a film. At Darwin, we celebrate this golden era of design with a curated collection of original film posters from the 1940s through the 1970s, when posters were more than just marketing—they were art, persuasion, and imagination in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"943\"\u003eOur collection spans a wide spectrum of countries and styles: striking Polish minimalism, surreal Cuban compositions, rare Danish and Soviet-era designs, as well as timeless classics from the U.S., Spain, and Italy. Each piece tells its own story—not just about the film, but about the aesthetic and cultural pulse of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1206\"\u003eThese posters were printed using now-forgotten techniques—vintage lithography, layered inks, textured papers—giving them a tactile and visual presence far beyond today’s mass-produced prints. Every fold, every faded color, holds a fragment of cinematic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1432\"\u003eWhether you’re a collector, a cinephile, or simply someone drawn to powerful design, this archive is a window into a time when the poster \u003cem data-start=\"1346\" data-end=\"1351\"\u003ewas\u003c\/em\u003e the decision-maker. And yes, every piece you see is also available for purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"le-desert-rouge-antonioni-original-poster-1964-120x160","title":"Le Désert Rouge (1964) — Antonioni — French Poster 120x160","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"675\"\u003eThis original 1964 French cinema poster for \u003cem data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"347\"\u003eLe Désert Rouge\u003c\/em\u003e captures Michelangelo Antonioni’s first colour film at its most psychologically vivid and compositionally stark. Printed for the film’s release in France and measuring a striking 160 x 120 cm, this is an authentic grande affiche — the standard theatrical format used in French cinemas — preserved in its original folded state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"1353\"\u003eIt features Monica Vitti framed in a moment of arresting tension — her black coat slicing through the acid red architecture, an emblem of the alienation that defines the film. The visible fold lines are not flaws but marks of circulation: physical traces of a poster made to travel between projection booths and ticket halls. Its visual language echoes the film’s experimental modernism. \u003cem data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1082\"\u003eLe Désert Rouge\u003c\/em\u003e was a turning point — Antonioni's break from neorealism into abstraction — and Vitti’s performance is inseparable from the intense palette and industrial melancholy the film portrays. The bold typographic contrast of yellow and red underscores that fractured intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1503\"\u003eThis is not just a poster, but a surviving print artefact of Italian modernist cinema’s rupture into post-industrial colour and psychic interiority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1524\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1524\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1548\"\u003eTitle: Le Désert Rouge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1600\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Michelangelo Antonioni (director)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1612\"\u003eDate: 1964\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1614\" data-end=\"1660\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset lithograph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1711\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Folded cinema poster on paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1739\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 160 x 120\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"1757\"\u003eLanguage: French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"1814\"\u003eCondition: Vintage, original folds, otherwise excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"1870\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: France-Import, Paris (distributor)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1872\" data-end=\"1921\"\u003ePrinted in France for the 1964 theatrical release\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472700174674,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/postersetup.jpg?v=1768334962"},{"product_id":"xx-x-antonioni-120x160-copy","title":"Le Démon des Femmes (1968) — Novak \/ Aldrich — French Poster 120x160","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"123\" data-end=\"519\"\u003eThis original French cinema poster for \u003cem data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"183\"\u003eLe Démon des Femmes\u003c\/em\u003e, printed for the film’s 1968 release in France, captures the fevered eroticism and pulp melodrama of Robert Aldrich’s American psychodrama \u003cem data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"350\"\u003eThe Legend of Lylah Clare\u003c\/em\u003e. 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"}],"url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/collections\/gallery-poster-archive-fil.oembed","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}