Original Leterrier, Francois Movie Posters

François Leterrier movie posters from his directorial work — following his starring role in Bresson's A Man Escaped (1956) — represent original French theatrical material from a filmmaker who moved between the industry's commercial and art cinema registers with considerable skill. Leterrier played Fontaine, the French Resistance officer whose methodical preparations to escape a Nazi prison form the entire subject of Bresson's rigorous and spiritually charged film—a performance of restraint and physical precision that exemplifies Bresson's distinctive approach to working with non-professional actors. Shop original materials from his significant film work. As a director, Leterrier made films including Zazie dans le Métro (1960, though that was Louis Malle—Leterrier directed other productions). His work in front of the camera, and later behind it, reflects the serious engagement with cinema as art that characterised the French film culture of the postwar decades. A Man Escaped remains among the most formally perfect films in the French canon, and Leterrier's contribution to its achievement is central. Materials associated with Bresson's productions and the French New Wave era are among the most sought-after in European cinema collecting. Original French theatrical materials—affiches, lobby cards, and press kits—from the late 1950s and 1960s are genuinely difficult to source in fine condition, and demand from collectors of French cinema continues to grow. Shop our French Cinema and Drama collections for related materials. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.