Genres
Production Companies
Fool’s Mate (Le Coup du berger)
Overview
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?
Key Crew
Director: Jacques Rivette
Screenplay: Claude Chabrol
Producer: Claude Chabrol, Pierre Braunberger
Writer: Jacques Rivette, Charles L. Bitsch
Director of Photography: Charles L. Bitsch
Top Cast
Virginie Vitry
Claire
Anne Doat
Solange
Jean-Claude Brialy
Claude
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Jean
François Truffaut
Party guest (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard
Party guest (uncredited)
Robert Lachenay
Party guest (uncredited)
Claude Chabrol
Party guest (uncredited)
