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Jamon Jamon [DVD] [1992]

DVD ~ Penelope Cruz
3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Anna Galiena, Stefania Sandrelli, Juan Diego
  • Directors: Bigas Luna
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Dec 2000
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005421V
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,707 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in Jamón Jamón a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavour, but there is an edge, perhaps even heavy-handedness, to the dark humour that is either Luna's success or his downfall. The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, after all. Try to follow: sexy Penelope Cruz (Belle Epoque) is growing up with her mother outside town on the wrong side of the highway. Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past. Cruz is in love with Jordí Molla, by whom she is pregnant, but Molla's bourgeois mother, played by Anna Galiena (Being Human), thinks he can and should do better (of course, neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic, avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side.) To save her son from the lower classes, Galiena hires Javier Bardem, a muscular, pretty man (whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal) to pursue Cruz. The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death. This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides. After each surprise, you'll chuckle, feel guilty, and chuckle again. --Erik Macki, Amazon.com

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
DVD 5
Spanish
Region 0
Dolby Digital Spanish
Dolby Digital
Scene Selection
Theatrical Trailer
Star And Director Filmographies
Directors Notes
Film Review
English


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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Offbeat, 17 Aug 2006
By Carla Dee (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sex and Violence in the heart of Spain, 6 May 2001
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Catch Penelope & Javier as they were before Hollywood got its hands on them.

If your idea of Spain is thirty years out of date then this film will give you a glimpse of Spain today. Although be prepared for an atmosphere that hardly seems European at all!

Like the best of those small town America epics, this film shows how life in a small town heightens emotions in the pressure cooker of isolation... until something just has to explode.

This is a road movie in which the road passes through the character's lives rather than they themselves hitting the road.

When you pass through Spain yourself, you will never be able to look at one of the famous Bull-shaped billboards in quite the same way after seeing this movie. Nor will you be able to feel as easy sitting under the hanging hams in those out of the way bars. Why? You'll have to click on "buy" to find out.

Spanish film has been quietly creating a school in the last ten years - Bigas Luna is one of the best directors the movement has produced and this is one of its undoubted high spots.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, 26 Oct 2007
By Ana (UK) - See all my reviews
I love this film... I saw it on the big screen when it was released in Spain, and wanted to have it in my DVD collection.
...it's not your "average film", but that's what makes it worth watching :)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Back in your box, Bigas.
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Jamon Jamon is one of those spainish films you watch because Penelope Cruz is in it, but, by the time the naked bullfight scene rolls around, if not before, you realize that not... Read more
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