Le coup du berger

1956
28m

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When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.

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Virginie Vitry

Claire

Anne Doat

Solange, la soeur de Claire

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jean, le mari
(as Etienne Loinod)

Jean-Claude Brialy

Claude, l'amant

Claude Chabrol

Un invité de la surprise-partie
(uncredited)

Jean-Luc Godard

Un invité à la fête
(uncredited)

Robert Lachenay

Party guest
(uncredited)

Jacques Rivette

Narrator
(voice)
(uncredited)

François Truffaut

Un invité à la fête
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Le coup du berger (1956) was largely shot in Claude Chabrol's apartment.

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Narrator: [as Claire sees her sister Solange enter their apartment and thus the party wearing the original/nicer fur coat that was intended for her from Claude but that was sneakily re-gifted to Solange by her husband Jean - who we are omnipotently led to believe is either perhaps aware of Claire's affair or who, himself, is having an affair with Solange] Here's the final move. Claire realizes she's been played. Too late.

Connections
Featured in Les mistons (1957)

Soundtracks
L'Impériale
Music by François Couperin
Played by Orchestre de Chambre Hewitt
Les Discophiles Français recording

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6/10

Fool's Mate

Virginia Vitry's lover has given her a fur coat and she is delighted. There's just one problem. What will she tell her husband?

Jacques Rivette's short film is based on a Roald Dahl story and is a typically snide piece of fiction for both men. For Rivette, there is an air of post-war anomie in the entire matter, one that runs through most of his work and most of the French New Wave. There is no real joy, and the comedies are all mocking ones, efforts of the biter-bit variety, like this.

The movie ends at a party, one supposedly shot in Claude Chabrol's apartment. It's something of a coming-out party for the New Wave, with Chabrol, Godard and Truffaut among the guests.