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The Tit and the Moon
The Outrageous, Funny and Erotic Conclusion to Bigas Luna's Spanish Trilogy that Began with Jamon, Jamon.
"Anglo-Saxon culture seems afraid of sex...the Mediterranean sees sex as a game." -- Bigas Luna
Spain's not-so-young enfant terrible Bigas Luna is up to his old subversive tricks with this alternately delightful and outrageous story of love, the moon, breasts, childhood innocence, Catalan symbology (and scatology) and mis-directed machismo. Nine-year-old Tete is our narrator. He's badgered by his macho dad and amusingly revolted by the recent arrival of a baby brother -- when he sees the little wrinkled one suckling at his mother's breast, he decides the baby is a greedy pig, stealing mom's milk for himself. He promptly begs the moon for a breast of his own. Enter French cabaret performer Estrellita (the Degas-like Mathilda May) and her impotent husband. Soon Tete is battling for Estrellita's love with the husband -- a circus performer whose specialty involves a symphony of flaming flatulence -- and Miquel, a local electrician with a fine flamenco voice... Tete's skewed narration is frequently very funny, while Luna's eye for and love of striking locations and cinematography, Catalan symbols and traditions, food, sex and -- perhaps surprisingly to some -- genuine emotion and beauty make this wonderfully excessive fairy tale a pleasure.
(Spain, 1994, subtitles, 88 min.)
Classification: TBA
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