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Fool’s Mate (1956)

28m

Running Time

Fool’s Mate (1956)

Name: Fool’s Mate
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1956-11-01

28m

Running Time

Plot.

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

Where to Watch.

Subs

Currently Fool’s Mate is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel, OVID

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Cast & Crew.

Virginie Vitry

Claire

Anne Doat

Solange

Jean-Claude Brialy

Claude

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jean

François Truffaut

Party guest (uncredited)

Jean-Luc Godard

Party guest (uncredited)

Robert Lachenay

Party guest (uncredited) / Assistant Camera

Claude Chabrol

Party guest (uncredited) / Screenplay / Producer

Jacques Rivette

Narrator (uncredited) / Director / Writer

Jean-Marie Straub

Assistant Director

Denise de Casabianca

Editor

Pierre Braunberger

Producer

Charles L. Bitsch

Writer / Director of Photography

Media.

Details.

Release Date
November 1, 1956

Original Name
Le Coup du berger

Status
Released

Running Time
28m

Genres
Comedy Drama

Last updated: 2025-04-04

This Movie Is About.

short

Wiki.

Fool's Mate (French: Le Coup du berger) is a 1956 short film directed by Jacques Rivette.

It stars Virginie Vitry as a wife cheating on her husband (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze). When her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy) buys her a mink coat, the adulterous pair hatch a plan to avoid her husband's questioning the coat's origins.

Fool's Mate is considered by some to be the first film of the French New Wave, or the movement's earliest antecedent. Released in 1956, the film is something of a curio thanks to a scene in which Rivette and New Wave contemporaries Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut are seen in the same room as party guests.