Les souffrances d'un oeuf meurtri (1967)

• 47%
• 1967
• Andrée McLey
• Roland Lespineux
• Jio Berk

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.) Stern-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem, shows, jahr, teenager sucking a starfish and then giving birth to a smaller starfish. A statement of inadequacy. To give birth involves jahr emasculation and a loss of vitality. 3.) Körper-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-beiträge, die...the statement that the birth of desire is a self – verwirklichung. 4.) Jungfernhäutchen – 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.