Jean-Louis
Trintignant is trying to invent new cost-effective ways to raise chickens on
his wife’s (Gina Lollibrigida) poultry farm.
When he isn’t working with the chickens, he’s busy getting his rocks off
sleeping with prostitutes. Lollibrigida eventually
gets wise to his scheme and becomes insanely jealous. She gets his cousin (Ewa Aulin) to make her
up as a hooker to catch him in the act, which leads to murder.
Death
Laid an Egg is comprised of two subplots. The stuff dealing with the maintenance,
marketing, and scientific experiments going on at the chicken farm is rough
going sometimes. There is one great
scene though where a scientist develops a mutated headless chicken, but for the
most part, these moments don’t have enough kick to make the rest of the flick
worthwhile. The main thrust of the
story, the prostitute murders, is unfortunately rather boring. There is a decent plot twist in the final reel,
although it occurs much too late to have any real impact. The open-ended ending is also frustrating.
The
direction and editing as often artsy-fartsy and gets in the way of the
action. I guess the Blow-Up influence is to blame for that. If it was presented in a more straightforward
manner, or at the very least had more sizzle (for a movie about murdering
prostitutes, it seems awful chaste) it might’ve worked.
AKA: A Curious Way to Love. AKA:
Plucked.
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