Fool's Mate

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?

Main Cast

Virginie Vitry

Claire

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Anne Doat

Solange

Age : 87 | Popularity : 3%

Jean-Claude Brialy

Claude

Age : 74 | Popularity : 23%

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jean

Age : 69 | Popularity : 3%

François Truffaut

Party guest (uncredited)

Age : 52 | Popularity : 9%

Jean-Luc Godard

Party guest (uncredited)

Age : 93 | Popularity : 10%

Robert Lachenay

Party guest (uncredited)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Claude Chabrol

Party guest (uncredited)

Age : 80 | Popularity : 10%

Crew

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

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