''The Tit and the Moon'' ( es, La Teta y la luna) is a 1994

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/ French film, directed by

Bigas Luna José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong pa ...

. It entered the competition at the

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.Edoardo Pittalis, Roberto Pugliese, ''Bella di Notte'', August 1996.

Plot

The film is about a nine-year-old boy's obsession with women's

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s. Tete becomes jealous of his baby brother who is breast fed by their mother. Tete goes on a personal mission to find the perfect pair of lactating

s to feed on. Estrellita, a beautiful French dancer (

Mathilda May Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress. Early life May was born in Paris, France. Her father, playwright Victor Haïm, is of Sephardic Jewish ( Greek-Jewish and Turkish-Jewish) descent. Her mother is the Sw ...

), arrives in town, the answer to Tete's prayers. Unfortunately for Tete, Estrellita is the attention of many adult men's affections including her husband Maurice (

Gérard Darmon Gérard Darmon (born 29 February 1948) is a French- Moroccan actor and singer. Personal life He was the second husband of actress Mathilda May (mother of his two youngest children). He has three children: Virginie (born 1968) and, by May, daug ...

), an older man working as the other half of her travelling act, and attractive

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-singing teenager Miguel (

Miguel Poveda Miguel Ángel Poveda León (born 13 February 1973) is a Spanish flamenco singer known by his stage name Miguel Poveda. Biography Born in Barcelona, Spain, his father is from Lorca in Murcia and his mother from Puertollano ( Castilla-La Mancha ...

). With this amount of competition will Tete ever fulfil his wish?

Cast

* Biel Durán as Tete *

as Estrellita *

as Maurice *

as Miquel * Abel Folk as Father *

Laura Mañá Laura Mañá Alvarenga (born 12 January 1968) is an actress, film director and screenwriter. She was born in Barcelona. As an actress, she has worked for directors such as Bigas Luna or Vicente Aranda. In 1997 she directed ''Paraules'', her first ...

as Mare * Genís Sánchez as Stallone * Xavier Massé as El Abuelo * Victoria Lepori as La de las tetas * Xus Estruch as La madre de Stallone * Jane Harvey as La Caballé * Vanessa Isbert as Novia de Stallone * Jordi Busquets as Cap Colla * Salvador Anglada as Casteller *

Javier Bardem Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. Known for his roles in blockbusters and foreign films, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in ...

(small, uncredited role)

References

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Review of the UK Region 0 DVD at DVD Times
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