Fool’s Mate

Overview

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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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)