Fool's Mate (1956 film)
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Fool's Mate (French: Le Coup du berger) is a 1956 short film directed by Jacques Rivette.
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Fool's Mate | |
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Le Coup du berger | |
Directed by | Jacques Rivette |
Screenplay by | Jacques Rivette Claude Chabrol Charles Bitsch |
Based on | Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat[1] |
Produced by | Pierre Braunberger Claude Chabrol |
Starring | Virginie Vitry Anne Doat Etienne Loinod Jean-Claude Brialy |
Cinematography | Charles Bitsch |
Edited by | Denise de Casabianca |
Music by | François Couperin |
Production company | Les Films de la Pleïade |
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Running time | 28 min |
Country | France |
Language | French |
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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.[2][3]
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.[2]