The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg (1967): Cast

A surrealist saga in four parts: 1) a credit sequence with title cards showing ever‑larger foetuses pulsating until a newborn cries; 2) “Etoile,” echoing Cocteau, an adolescent sucking a starfish and birthing a smaller one, a statement on inadequacy and emasculation; 3) “Corps,” two superimposed images of a man on a couch groping, watched by a voyeur, whose breathing merges as desire becomes self‑realisation; 4) “Hymen,” a decaying girl's body filtered green, revealing maggots crawling in her vagina over a crucifix, symbolising Catholic repression of free desire.

• RL Roland Lethem
• ND Nicole DuPort
• JB Jio Berk
• AM Andrée McLey