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Fool’s Mate
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Fool’s Mate

1956
Directed byJacques Rivette
0h 28m

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.

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Virginie VitryClaireAnne DoatSolangeJean-Claude BrialyClaude
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Jacques Doniol-ValcrozeJean
François TruffautParty guest (uncredited)
Jean-Luc GodardParty guest (uncredited)
Robert LachenayParty guest (uncredited)
Claude ChabrolParty guest (uncredited)
Jacques RivetteNarrator (uncredited)
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GENRES
ComedyDrama
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.4

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