Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg (1967)
Directed by Roland Lethem
· 19m
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.
Cast
Roland Lethem
Crew
- Director
- Roland Lethem
Details
- Original title
- Les souffrances d'un oeuf meurtri
- Release date
- 1967-12-27
- Runtime
- 19m
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium