"La teta y la luna" (The Tit and
the Moon) is the third and last film of a trilogy comprising
"Jamón, Jamón" (Ham, Ham) and "Huevos de oro" (Golden Balls). The
three films are of considerable symbolic interest to me in that
they represent a series of things that are typical of this country:
tradition, contemporaneity and the surrealistic. The film focuses
on Catalonia and the influence of France and Spain on life and the
local culture [...]
The title has to do with the movie because it is about the story
of a boy who falls in love with a breast. His mother has a baby and
he sees how she breast-feeds him. He is eight or nine years old and
asks his mother to let him suck her breast. She just laughs and
tells him that he is too old for that. Then, he watches a show in
which a female dancer is showing one of her breasts. He
concentrates all his desire on that breast.
It is a great love story of three male characters. The film can be
explained as a triangle with a big vagina right in the middle; a
big seed. The upper vertex symbolizes the year 2000, the lower two
vertices the generation of the 1990s and 1970s respectively. Each
of the three men represent a different time period: the boy from
the year 2000 falls in love with a fantastic vision of the breast,
the youngster from the 1990s falls in love with the woman in a
romantic sense while his companion, a man aged 50 is in love with
an idea of her. The three males are the same character in three
different stages of his life. All three of them are in love with
her and she is in love with all three. The idea of making a
different kind of love film appeals to me. Until now I have made
films about women falling in love with brutality, with passion. Not
in this case; this film is very sweet, very romantic.
BIGAS LUNA.