Cult Film Friday: The Tit And The Moon (1994)

The Tit and the Moon (La Teta y la luna) is a film from 1994. A Spanish/French co-production, directed by Bigas Luna. It stars Mathilda May (the naked vampire alien in Lifeforce from the 1984 Tobe Hopper directed sci-fi horror film) as a Portuguese dancer. A young boy, who resents the arrival of his baby brother, asks moon for a tit that only he can feed from. His obsession with breasts results in him finding Mathilda's character, but she holds the attention of many men in the town. Will the young lad achieve his wish, and have her tits for his own?

The Tit And The Moon is a beautifully told comic story of love and obsession, that carefully finds a balance between comedy, sexual obsession, and the dreams of childhood. Through surreal fantasy sequences, it delicately and irreverently handles its subject matter, creating a gem of a movie that is warm and endearing while playing with eroticism and sexual fantasy. 

The film is considered as the final part of Bigas Luna's "Iberian Trilogy" of films, which also include Jamón, Jamón (1992) and Huevos de oro (1993).