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Fool’s Mate is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jacques Rivette released in USA on 1 january 1956 with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Fool’s Mate (1956)

Fool’s Mate
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Released in USA 1 january 1956
Length 27minutes
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating69% 3.4895053.4895053.4895053.4895053.489505

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.

Synopsis

Claire, mariée à Jean, a un amant, Claude. Ce dernier lui offre un manteau en fourrure. Mais, pour Claire, il y a un problème : comment ramener la fourrure au domicile conjugal sans que son mari ne suspecte la liaison. Claude échafaude le stratagème suivant : il va aller déposer le manteau dans une consigne, donner le ticket de consigne à Claire qui feindra de l'avoir trouvé dans un taxi et enverra son mari voir ce qui s'y trouve, et ainsi, ramener lui-même le manteau à la maison. Le plan fonctionne : le mari va à la consigne, ramène une valise, mais à l'intérieur il n'y a plus qu'une peau de lapin. Claire devient alors soupçonneuse.

Actors

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

(Jean)Jean-Claude Brialy

(Claude)Virginie Vitry

(Claire)Anne Doat

(Solange)François Truffaut

(Party guest (uncredited))
And :
Jean-Luc Godard
Claude Chabrol
Jacques Rivette
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