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kinjitsu wrote:And fwiw, wasn't Rocco's bandage above his left eye?

Are we even sure that's a bandage?

Addendum: Left eye, indeed

They've really been making these difficult lately. Either that or the forum members here are slipping.

Doesn't really look like Delon to me, either. I know that poster art isn't always true-to-life but who on earth would have ever drawn Delon with a thin pointy nose like that? That's just wrong.

Brian C wrote:Doesn't really look like Delon to me, either. I know that poster art isn't always true-to-life but who on earth would have ever drawn Delon with a thin pointy nose like that? That's just wrong.

We'll solve it when my wife gets home. There is a very small stable of actors that activate her salivary glands and the young Delon lives in the first stall.

It's an illustration, not a photograph. Just because it doesn't look like Delon doesn't mean it's not just a very poor likeness of him. But I actually have no idea what film this is for or if that's Delon.

I hadn't even noticed the bandage over the eye before. That could support it being Rocco, even if it's over the wrong eye. Still looks nothing like Delon to me though.

There's a crease across the middle, it looks to me like a bill poster made out of at least 2 sheets pasted to a wall... Which would fit ROCCO...

Matt wrote:It's an illustration, not a photograph. Just because it doesn't look like Delon doesn't mean it's not just a very poor likeness of him. But I actually have no idea what film this is for or if that's Delon.

Quite true, but I just googled "Alain Delon posters" and several hundred were returned. Nothing that looks like that and in all the actor was definitely recognizable. Not to say that Criterion couldn't dig up an obscure drawing by an artist who shouldn't give up his day job just to throw us off. (And what's with the botoxed lips?)

I wonder if they've stretched the image?

A gentleman on Facebook suggested A Man Escaped. Could be Francois Leterrier as easily as it could be Delon...

Harmonov wrote:A gentleman on Facebook suggested A Man Escaped. Could be Francois Leterrier as easily as it could be Delon...

And once again, there's already a French blu.

Matt wrote:It's an illustration, not a photograph. Just because it doesn't look like Delon doesn't mean it's not just a very poor likeness of him. But I actually have no idea what film this is for or if that's Delon.

Like I said, fwiw. I doubt that it's Delon. However...

Nose certainly looks closer, to me:

That looks much more likely.

The Facebookers are now saying Sans Soleil, which would be great. The Marker disc has seemed like a no-brainer Blu upgrade for a long time.

I don't think its a good likeness of either actor, but it's certainly closer to Leterrier nose-wise.

As for the line across the forehead, two design cliches suggest themselves: the wanted poster (oh dear) and the creased newspaper. If it is this film, I'm sort of hoping for the latter, as having "A MAN ESCAPES" as a newspaper headline would look spectacularly idiotic.

It does look like Leterrier's nose, but I think the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth look more like Delon's. The somewhat impish smirk also seems to be Delon's.

zedz wrote:As for the line across the forehead, two design cliches suggest themselves: the wanted poster (oh dear) and the creased newspaper. If it is this film, I'm sort of hoping for the latter, as having "A MAN ESCAPES" as a newspaper headline would look spectacularly idiotic.

I don't think this is a partial cover. The grainy image and angle suggest it's a frame grab, probably cropped.

Just remembered they recently removed L'Eclisse from Hulu....blu upgrade?

Someone on Facebook found this framegrab in Sans soleil:

Thank goodness that's solved. Now what do we do with the rest of the afternoon?

Gregory Peck?

Matt wrote:Thank goodness that's solved. Now what do we do with the rest of the afternoon?

Keep making wrong guesses?

I still want to know who it is. I haven't seen Sans soleil. Does the film reveal who it is, or is it just a random poster.

Matt wrote:Thank goodness that's solved. Now what do we do with the rest of the afternoon?

Drink?

You're supposed to wait until the afternoon?