Fool's Mate (1956)

ALL 11/01/1956 (fr) Comedy, Drama 28 Min
  • Release
    11/01/1956
  • Production
    Les Films de la Pléiade
  • Rotten tomato
    66%
  • Original title
    Le Coup du berger
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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?

  1. Jacques Rivette

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Virginie Vitry

    Claire

  2. Anne Doat

    Solange

  3. Jean-Claude Brialy

    Claude

  4. Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

    Jean

  5. François Truffaut

    Party guest (uncredited)

  6. Jean-Luc Godard

    Party guest (uncredited)

  7. Robert Lachenay

    Party guest (uncredited)

  8. Claude Chabrol

    Party guest (uncredited)

  9. Jacques Rivette

    Narrator (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 9 , Crews : 10

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Fool's Mate (1956) 28 Min

ALL 11/01/1956 (fr)
Comedy, Drama
  • Release 11/01/1956
  • Production
    Les Films de la Pléiade
  • Original title Le Coup du berger
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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?

  1. Jacques Rivette

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Denise de Casabianca

    Editor

  4. Pierre Braunberger, Claude Chabrol

    Producer