Jamon Jamon Details

1992

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60
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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	Javier Bardem, Anna Galiena, Stefania Sandrelli, Juan Diego
Director	Bigas Luna
Genres	Comedy, World Cinema

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Jamon Jamon

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

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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
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
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15 out of 17 people found this review helpful

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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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Weak film

Was looking forward to watching Penelope Cruz in her early career but was disappointed. Pointless nudity and it was unconvincing the way she changed the object of her affections so easily. Could do with a lot more editing. I would not recommend it to anyone.
- - A customer from Rickmansworth, UK
  - Posted 12 Jul 2005 19:29
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