

Fool’s Mate
Visit website6.6/10 • 25
1956-11-01 • 0h 28m
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?
- Directors
- Jacques Rivette
- Writters
- Jacques Rivette, Charles L. Bitsch
- Editors
- Jacques Rivette, Denise de Casabianca

Fool’s Mate
Visit website1956-11-01 • 0h 28m
6.6/10 • 25
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?
- Directors
- Jacques Rivette
- Writters
- Jacques Rivette, Charles L. Bitsch
- Editors
- Jacques Rivette, Denise de Casabianca
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsVirginie 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)
Jacques Rivette
Narrator (uncredited)
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- Status
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- Original Language
- French
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- Keywords
- short film