Fool's Mate (1956)
28m
Running Time
November 1, 1956Release Date
Fool's Mate (1956)
28m
Running Time
November 1, 1956Release Date
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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
SubsCurrently Fool's Mate is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel, OVID
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Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 1956
Original NameLe Coup du berger
StatusReleased
Running Time28m
Genres
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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.