LACENAIRE

Original French 47 inch x 63 inch Poster for the 1994 Francis Girod Biographical Crime Drama LACENAIRE starring Daniel Auteuil as Pierre-François Lacenaire, Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber, Francois Perier, Genevive Casile, Jacques Duby, Jean Davy, Paul Le Person, Maiwenn Le Besco, Jacques Sereys, Rufus and Gerard Desarthe.

An uncompromising portrait of one of France’s most famous criminals. Famously the inspiration for Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the kind of self-obsessed amoral sociopathwho was both loved and feared by a countrythat was still coming to terms with the fallout from the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic wars. Lacenaire epitomised France’s intellectual eliteat the time, contemptuous of conventional ideology and zealously attacking the establishment, partly through vanity, partly through disillusionment with the revolution, but also through some misguided belief that a better society could only be built once the ordinary man had freed himself from the shackles of a self-serving, all-controlling state. If it meant killing a few old women along the way, so be it.

Poster art by Pascal Boissiere.

The poster is in very good folded condition.