Sunday, 19 February 2006

The Tit and the Moon (1984)

It is difficult to summarise this movie which followed after "Jamon Jamon" and "Golden Balls" for the consistently interesting Catalan director Bigas Luna.  Yes, the "tit" of the title does refer to a breast which the young lead wants for his own after he jealously sees his mother nursing his new (and hated) baby brother.  The breast he hones in on belongs to French dancer and entertainer Mathilda May who is touring Spain with her fart-into-fire husband.  However he is not the only local who covets her; a slightly older lad is also besotted and spends his nights singing Flamenco outside her trailer.  The film  is concerned also with the local sport of human pyramid-building and whether our hero will find the "balls" to climb to the top as the pinnacle without knocking the whole lot into a heap.  This can only begin to give you the flavour of this rather charming and unusual concoction.

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