Fool's Mate (1956 film)
Fool's Mate (French: Le Coup du berger) is a 1956 short film directed by Jacques Rivette.
| Fool's Mate | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Release date | 1956 |
Running time | 28 min |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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]
References
- Stevens, Brad (2004). "L'œuvre télévisuelle d'Alfred Hitchcock". Trafic (in French). 51: 101.
L'histoire de Dahl avait été officieusement adaptée par Jacques Rivette dans un court métrage intitulé Le Coup du berger (1956). Ne pouvant acheter les droits, Rivette prétendait que le film lui avait été inspiré par des articles de journaux (le générique va jusqu'à affirmer: D'après un fait divers).
- "Le coup du berger". The Criterion Channel.
- "Jacques Rivette obituary". the Guardian. 2016-01-29. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
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