{"id":215,"date":"2007-02-16T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/215"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T22:34:21","slug":"le-coup-du-berger-1956-jacques-rivette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/215","title":{"rendered":"Le Coup du berger (1956, Jacques Rivette)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Le Coup du berger<\/em>, or, <em>Fool&#8217;s Mate<\/em> or maybe <em>Checkmate<\/em>, with an all-star new wave crew.  Rivette directed and narrated, Straub assistant-directed, Chabrol wrote, Truffaut and Godard had cameos, and Cahiers cofounder Jacques Doniol-Valcroze played the husband.<\/p>\n<p>A woman&#8217;s lover (Brialy, he of the luxurious hair in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/754\">Claire&#8217;s Knee<\/a><\/em>) gives her a fur coat and she wants to keep it, but she&#8217;ll look suspicious to her husband.  She they concoct a foolish plan: she pretends to find an airport claim check in a cab and has him pick up the case, where she&#8217;ll be pleasantly surprised to get a free fur coat!  But he twists the plan by replacing the coat with something cheap and giving them good one to HIS lover.  Gotcha!<\/p>\n<p>A decent little flick&#8230; worth a look, but as Keith Uhlich in Slant says, it&#8217;s more Chabrol&#8217;s film than Rivette&#8217;s.  He also says &#8220;the whole thing is shallow and obvious in ways that Rivette&#8217;s features never are&#8221;.  I wouldn&#8217;t go that far, but I wasn&#8217;t assessing its worth in the Rivette canon, just watching for the fun of it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/images\/coupduberger1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/images\/coupduberger2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/images\/coupduberger3.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Coup du berger, or, Fool&#8217;s Mate or maybe Checkmate, with an all-star new wave crew. Rivette directed and narrated, Straub assistant-directed, Chabrol wrote, Truffaut and Godard had cameos, and Cahiers cofounder Jacques Doniol-Valcroze played the husband. A woman&#8217;s lover (Brialy, he of the luxurious hair in Claire&#8217;s Knee) gives her a fur coat and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,353,9,21],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-claude-chabrol","tag-jacques-rivette","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}