Fool's Mate (1956 film)

Fool's Mate
Le Coup du berger
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.

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.

External links

Fool's Mate at the Internet Movie Database
vimeo
BFI

Films by Jacques Rivette

filmography bibliography

Fool's Mate (1956) Paris Belongs to Us (1960) The Nun (1966) L'amour fou (1969) Out 1 (1971) Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) Duelle (1976) Noroît (1976) Merry-Go-Round (1981) Le Pont du Nord (1981) Love on the Ground (1984) Hurlevent (1985) Gang of Four (1989) La Belle Noiseuse (1991) Joan the Maiden (1994) Up, Down, Fragile (1995) Une aventure de Ninon (1995) Top Secret (1998) Va savoir (2001) The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) The Duchess of Langeais (2007) Around a Small Mountain (2009)

French New Wave

Directors	François Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Éric Rohmer Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette

Left Bank	Henri Colpi Marguerite Duras Armand Gatti Chris Marker Alain Resnais Alain Robbe-Grillet Agnès Varda

Other filmmakers	Philippe de Broca Jacques Demy Jean Douchet Jean Eustache Georges Franju Pierre Kast Louis Malle Jean-Pierre Melville Luc Moullet Jacques Rozier Straub-Huillet Roger Vadim

Theoretical influences	Alexandre Astruc André Bazin Robert Bresson Jacques Doniol-Valcroze Henri Langlois Joseph-Marie Lo Duca Jean Rouch

Key films	Le Coup du Berger (1956) Le Beau Serge (1958) The 400 Blows (1959) Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Breathless (1960) Adieu Philippine (1962) Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) La Jetée (1962)

Related topics	Auteur theory Cahiers du cinéma Cinémathèque Française Jump cut

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