Original Polish Poster (26×38) for the Claude Chabrol psychological thriller, THIS MAN MUST DIE (1969) starring Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier and Jean Yanne. Director Chabrol was in the golden age of his career with this revenge tale about a man whose son is killed in a hit and run car accident. After discovering the possibly identity of the driver, he insinuates himself into the life and family of an actress. She was in the death car and his urge for revenge is palpable. The poster design features a car and a tire crashing into a pair of frail hands, made to look like a bird in flight, innocent and defenseless. The background is of flocked wallpaper that might be in a setting like a salon or someone’s home-a typically banal location for the intensity of the emotions Chabrol is exploring. This original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Polish Poster (26×33) for the Claude Chabrol thriller, MASQUES (1987) starring Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont and Anne Brochet. MASQUES is a classic French thriller of the sort made popular by Chabrol in the 1970s & 1980s. In this one, Noiret plays a greedy TV personality investigating a woman’s disappearance at a country estate rife with larceny, lechery and cynical hangers-on. Poster design features the three lead actors as store mannequin heads who are literally “thin-skinned.” Art on this poster is by Wieslaw Walkuski. Very Fine Plus.