Fool’s Mate

28m
ComedyDrama
6.4

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat. Now Claire needs to figure out how to return home with this expensive gift without the affair being found out.

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)
Jacques Rivette
Narrator (uncredited)

Crew

Jacques Rivette
Director, Writer
Charles L. Bitsch
Writer, Director of Photography
Claude Chabrol
Screenplay, Producer
Denise de Casabianca
Editor
Jean-Marie Straub
Assistant Director
Pierre Braunberger
Producer
Robert Lachenay
Assistant Camera

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