Original Jean-Luc Godard Movie Posters

Jean-Luc Godard movie posters — particularly the original French grandes for his early period — are among the rarest and most valuable items in European cinema art collecting. As the central filmmaker of the French New Wave, Godard made films that were arguments about cinema conducted in the language of cinema, and the posters for his work reflect the same radical energy: graphic design that broke with the conventions of commercial advertising to produce something genuinely new. The Jean-Paul Belmondo period (1959–1965) produced the most actively collected materials. Original grandes and affiches for Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960) — with Belmondo and Jean Seberg — are among the most sought-after items in all of French cinema art. The Anna Karina collaborations — Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Bande à Part (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965) — produced grandes of comparable rarity and a visual intimacy unmatched in New Wave advertising. Godard's political period of the late 1960s and 1970s — films produced through the Dziga Vertov Group with Anne Wiazemsky — generated campaign materials in much smaller quantities, reflecting the restricted distribution of explicitly political cinema. These are among the rarest items in this collection. His later work, from Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) through his final features, produced campaign materials that are more available but still represent significant French cinema documents. Original Godard material is available to purchase across formats and national variants — French grandes, Italian 2-fogli, and Japanese B2 each bring a different visual sensibility to the same films. Browse alongside our Nouvelle Vague and Anna Karina collections for related French New Wave material. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.