“Sundays and Cybèle” (シベールの日曜日 / Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray), Original Japanese Re-Release Movie Poster 1980, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) ZA109

This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1980 for the Japanese theatrical re-release of Sundays and Cybèle, Serge Bourguignon’s haunting 1962 French drama starring Hardy Krüger and Patricia Gozzi. One of the most moving and unusual European art-house films of its era, it is remembered for its fragile emotional tone, its wintry visual poetry, and its deeply melancholic story of innocence, trauma, and connection. This Japanese re-release design is especially striking: restrained, elegant, and unmistakably serious in the way only great French-cinema posters can be.

Film background
Originally released in 1962, Sundays and Cybèle (French title: Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray) tells the story of a traumatised former fighter pilot and a lonely young girl who form an intense, tender bond on Sundays in the outskirts of Paris. Directed by Serge Bourguignon, the film became an internationally celebrated success and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, helping secure its reputation as one of the key poetic French dramas of the period. Delicate, controversial, and profoundly humane, it remains a landmark of post-war European cinema, balancing emotional intimacy with a quiet sense of unease and loss.

Poster design
A beautiful and highly sophisticated Japanese re-release design built around a single large monochrome image of the two central figures standing by the water, hands joined, isolated within a misty, bare-limbed landscape. The composition is almost minimalist, allowing the emotional weight of the image to breathe. Above, the huge hand-painted pink Japanese title シベールの日曜日 cuts dramatically across the pale field, giving the sheet its memorable visual identity. The contrast between the soft black-and-white still and the vivid pink typography is superb. It is an exceptionally elegant poster—understated, art-house, and very displayable.

Condition
Excellent. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.

It is over 46 years old!
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.