A Bout de Souffle/ Breathless (1959), poster, misprint 'Godart', French

A Bout de Souffle/ Breathless (1959), poster, misprint 'Godart', French

Artist: Clement Hurel (1927-2008)

Unframed: 31 x 24 in. (79 x 61 cm)

Framed: 40 x 31 1/2 in. (101.6 x 80 cm)

This poster was from the initial print run, which had a typo in the director's surname (printed 'Godart' instead of 'Godard').

Exceptionally rare.

This 1960 film was written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a small-time criminal and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend. This was Godard's first feature-length work and Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor. A Bout de Souffle was one of the earliest and most influential examples of French New Wave. Along with other films released just one year earlier, it helped to bring international acclaim to this new mode of French filmmaking owing to its visual style and unconventional filming techniques.