Original Nouvelle Vague Movie Posters

Nouvelle Vague movie posters represent one of the rarest and most desirable categories in all of European cinema collecting — original French campaign materials for the films that fundamentally changed what cinema could be. The directors of the Cahiers du Cinéma generation — Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Jacques Rivette — worked with graphic designers and photographers who were as formally adventurous as the filmmakers themselves. Shop our collection for authenticated originals. The stars of the New Wave are inseparable from its visual identity. Jean-Paul Belmondo's angular, street-smart presence defined the look of Breathless (1960) and made him the movement's most commercially successful actor. Anna Karina — Godard's great muse and the subject of six extraordinary films — appears across the Godard campaigns of the early 1960s with a directness and intimacy that set these posters apart from any other film advertising of the era. Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jeanne Moreau, and Bernadette Lafont complete the essential New Wave cast represented in this collection. The grande format — 47x63 inches, printed by the specialist Paris printing houses — was the primary vehicle for French theatrical advertising, and the grandes for early Godard and Truffaut films are among the most sought-after items in European cinema art. Print runs were small, audiences were limited (these were not mainstream commercial productions), and survival rates are accordingly very low. Genuine first-release examples command serious collector attention when they appear. Get access to one of the deepest holdings of authentic New Wave material available anywhere. Browse alongside our individual filmmaker pages for Jean-Luc Godard and the Paris collection for related French cinema material. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.