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Silvia, a village girl pregnant with Jose Luis' baby, plans to marry but Jose's mother has other ideas. She hires the talents of the local hunk Raul to win Silvia away. Spanish dialogue with subtitles. Read more

Starring Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Anna Galiena
Director Bigas Luna
Genres Comedy, World Cinema

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Jamon Jamon

Silvia, a village girl pregnant with Jose Luis' baby, plans to marry but Jose's mother has other ideas. She hires the talents of the local hunk Raul to win Silvia away. Spanish dialogue with subtitles.

Starring Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Anna Galiena, Stefania Sandrelli, Juan Diego, Jordi Molla
Director Bigas Luna
Studio PALISADES TARTAN
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Comedy, World Cinema
Language Spanish
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 27 Dec 2000
Production year: 1992
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Forget the over-hyped Pedro Almodovar, director Bigas Luna represents the cutting edge of Spanish cinema with his warm, witty and wise exploration of flamenco love and desire. The first of a trilogy completed by Golden Balls and The Tit and the Moon Luna's fast and frantic passion play rides a carnal carousel, with macho star discovery Javier Bardem posing in underwear, eating ham jamon and bullfighting in the nude. Call it paella porn or Andalucian art, it's uniquely entertaining and very hot stuff indeed.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • This is 'Carry On' as scripted by Lorca, a hysterically sombre sex farce pointing up the connections between sex and... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 15 out of 17 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    The taste of ham...

    The movie characters have lives more tangled than in soap operas. The plot is horrendously implausible; the cinematography poor and the sex gratuitous. And yet this is a fun film. Sylvia is pregnant with the child of the rich boy Jean Luis, who is also sleeping with her mother Carmen who owns the local bordello. Carmen, it is said, has been with Luis’s father sometime in the past. Luis’s father finds Sylvia agreeable, very agreeable. His mother Conchita, however, does not share the enthusiasm of the male members of her family for Sylvia and her mom. So she hires Raul, who models underwear (the Luis’s family’s business) to seduce Sylvia. He succeeds in seducing not just Sylvia but Conchita as well. So the whole movie romps along with everyone screwing everyone else, literally & figuratively. And yes, Jamon Jamon, means ‘Ham, Ham’ and Sylvia’s breasts are supposed to taste like ham.

    Howz that....

      • Ilias from West Midlands
      • Posted 04 Feb 2004 12:33

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Offbeat

    This is not your average run of the mill love story. It’s an offbeat, somewhat excessive plot; a sort of love triangle but involving more than three people, all of whom are driven by lust and greed and seem to have no real control over their lives. If there is a message within the story, it is not glaringly obvious but it does make a mockery of love and highlights the fickleness of human nature, irrespective of age or experience. On the whole I found the film to be a little too contrived for my liking and the ending was rather elusive but overall it’s worth a watch, if only to see angry Spaniards hitting each other with legs of ham.

      • Carlotta from UK
      • Posted 10 Mar 2004 01:32

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