Fool’s Mate

Fool’s Mate (1956)


  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Release Date: 1956-11-01
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 23 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 28min
  • Language: Français
  • Production Company: Les Films de la Pléiade
  • Production Country: France
  • Director: Jacques Rivette
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From 23 Ratings

Summary

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?

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  • Virginie Vitry

    as Claire
  • Anne Doat

    as Solange
  • Jean-Claude Brialy

    as Claude
  • Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

    as Jean
  • François Truffaut

    as Party guest (uncredited)
  • Jean-Luc Godard

    as Party guest (uncredited)
  • Robert Lachenay

    as Party guest (uncredited)
  • Claude Chabrol

    as Party guest (uncredited)
  • Jacques Rivette

    as Narrator (uncredited)
Directing Jacques Rivette Director
Directing Jean-Marie Straub Assistant Director
Writing Claude Chabrol Screenplay
Production Claude Chabrol Producer
Writing Jacques Rivette Writer
Editing Denise de Casabianca Editor
Production Pierre Braunberger Producer
Writing Charles L. Bitsch Writer
Camera Charles L. Bitsch Director of Photography
Camera Robert Lachenay Assistant Camera

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