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The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg (1967)

Name: The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
Director: Roland Lethem
Released: 1967-12-27
Duration: 19 min
Rating: 3.0
Cast: Andrée McLey, Roland Lespineux, Jio Berk, Nicole Duport, Roland Lethem

TMDB 3.00h 19m

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Plot Summary

A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries. 2.) Etoile-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a starfish and then giving birth to a smaller starfish. A statement of inadequacy. To give birth involves an emasculation and a loss of vitality. 3.) Corps-two images of a man on a couch groping for each other, watched by a mysterious peeping Tom. As the two superimposed images come together, the heavy breathing subsides…the statement that the birth of desire is a self – realisation. 4.) Hymen – The decaying body of a girl is shot through green filters, and the final image reveals her vagina crawling with maggots and overlain with a crucifix. A representation of Catholicism preventing the free expression of desire.