Fool’s Mate (1956)

Fool’s Mate

1956

Comedy Drama

Synopsis

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?

Credits

Director

Jacques Rivette

Cast

Anne Doat as Solange

Claude Chabrol as Party guest (uncredited)

François Truffaut as Party guest (uncredited)

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze as Jean

Jacques Rivette as Narrator (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Brialy as Claude

Jean-Luc Godard as Party guest (uncredited)

Robert Lachenay as Party guest (uncredited)