Fool's Mate (1956 film)
| Fool's Mate | |
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| Directed by | Jacques Rivette |
| Produced by |
Pierre Braunberger Claude Chabrol |
| Screenplay by |
Jacques Rivette Claude Chabrol Charles Bitsch |
| Based on | gossip article |
| Starring |
Virginie Vitry Anne Doat Etienne Loinod Jean-Claude Brialy |
| Music by | François Couperin |
| Cinematography | Charles Bitsch |
| Edited by | Denise de Casabianca |
Production company |
Les Films de la Pleïade |
Release dates | 1956 |
Running time | 28 min |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Fool's Mate (French: Le coup du berger) is a twenty-eight minute 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.
Released in 1956, the film is something of a curio thanks to a scene in which Rivette and French New Wave contemporaries Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut are seen in the same room as party guests.
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