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Penélope Cruz (Actor), Stefania Sandrelli (Actor), Bigas Lunas (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego, Javier Bardem
  • Directors: Bigas Lunas
  • Format: PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Sound
  • Language: Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Dec. 2000
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005421V
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,430 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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When underwear factory worker Silvia (Penelope Cruz) falls pregnant by her boyfriend and boss Jose Luis (Jordi Mulla), Jose's domineering mother, Conchita (Stefania Sandrelli) takes immediate action to prevent them getting married. Selecting the sexy would-be bullfighter Raul (Javier Bardem) from the local ham factory, Conchita pays him to seduce Silvia and persuade her to break off the engagement to Jose.

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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

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3.0 out of 5 starsOffbeat
By Carla Dee on 17 Aug. 2006
Format: DVD
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 starsBigas Luna's critic of how foreigners stereotype Spain
By A Customer on 27 Nov. 2001
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What a superb film ! This is the one which introduced me to all things Spanish. Be warned though, I have given this 5 stars only because I am a huge fan of the wacky fast-paced plots of Spanish cinema.
For many years I believed that Jamon Jamon was typical of Spanish Cinema. However I have now come to realise that Bigas Luna was actually laughing at how foreigners interpret his native land: the references to ham, spanish omelette, garlic, the barren landscapes, fiery women, musica "bacalao" of the early 90's, all intertwined around a plot consisting of an underwear factory and a love-triangle.
Set on the outskirts of Madrid, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz are fantastic in this story of lust and temptation. This film is a must for anybody remotely interested in Spanish cinema.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBigas Lunas, Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem, Brilliant !!
By Steve Dixson on 11 July 2001
Format: VHS Tape
This for me is one of the best films by Bigas Lunas although "The Tit & the Moon" comes a very close second. This is the tale of hot blooded spaniards caught in tangled love triangles. Penelope Cruz is stunning and I knew all those years ago that her beauty and innocence would carry her far. The blurb to the film really says it all as the truly strong characters in this film are the women. "A story where men eat meat and women eat men". Also starring Javier Bardem who went on to star in "Perdita Derango" with Rosie Perez this is a slice of Spain that I love. Also worth checking out by Bigas Lunas is Huevos D'Oro (Goldenballs).Enjoy.
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1.0 out of 5 starsPoor quality not re-mastered
By digimaze on 5 May 2014
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This release features a low-quality image with non-removable subtitles clearly dubbed from an old analog source (vhs or laserdisc). This fact should be noted in the description. An uncharacteristically poor release from Tartan.
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4.0 out of 5 starsHamming it Up!
By Tim Kidner TOP 500 REVIEWER on 20 April 2012
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How many films do you get where a big ham is used as a deadly weapon? No, I'm not joking and its use by Javier Badem (never more svelte and lean) is part of this love story.

Sorry to be blunt about this one - if you want to and are expecting to see probably the most beautiful woman making films today, Penelope Cruz, topless, then this is the film for you. Her breasts get kneaded like dough quite a bit in this gently erotic movie. Trouble is, the DVD transfer isn't much better than video quality, so much that is worth watching and filmed in the dark is just a dark grey mush, with an occasional shape looming about.

Spanish cinema, for me, started as with many, Pedro Almodovar, often on Film 4. Different, exotic, tantalising, not always good but when he was, he really was. Then, after his Red Squirrel became one of my all-time favourites, Julio Medem and I got his box-set, almost his complete works. Now, finally, to Bigas Luna and the first DVD of three that I've bought of his.

Keeping an open mind is both a necessity and a virtue when trying any new director. In Jamon Jamon, he follows themes (or they all followed each other) that are found in both Almodovar's and Medem's works - intense passion, a strong sense of Spanish identity and flair. Flair, as in having Bardem's wannabe bullfighter working in a pork curing plant (hence the ham). Little flourishes and touches that tickle the imagination and keep us interested. The 'love-triangle' scenario is a well-worn one that can get very stodgy and samey; here it is on fire and while to us rather sedate British lovers, the passion's all rather heated and OTT, you can't argue that there's a smoulder here.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsGreek drama set in Spain
By F. L. P. Souza on 9 Feb. 2012
Format: DVD
Who writes the jackets for these DVDs? To call this "outrageously funny" and "outrageous comedy" is actually totally misleading. The film is quite good, but I dare anyone to show me more than 20 seconds of "comedy relief" in the whole film. It is a drama, and a very dramatic one at that, that carries itself quite well until the last ten minutes: then it loses itself completely like a simmering pot which boils over and turns into a sorry mess. Quite a pity, since everything was building up very well until the overdone finale. Then it makes "Oedipus Rex" seem like an afternoon variety show.

Bigas Luna showed talent already then (this was one of his early films) and so did Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. Fortunately for all of us, they all evolved and became better artists and better professionals. You can see the evolution clearly in Bigas Lumas' "Y tu mamá tanbién", in which the finale is understated and gains added impact because of that. Here in Jamón, Jamón, he went over the top and probably regretted it later. Bardem showed his acting talent in later films. In Jamon, Jamon, he rivals the acting prowess of Brad Pitt in "Telma and Louise", only with less depth of character.

The only really funny part is in the credits, appearing at the end: the characters are presented as "La madre puta", "La puta madre", "La hija de puta", etc. That evoked a hearty laugh in us. Pity there was no translation, so most of the English-speaking audience will have missed it.

The subtitles, by the way, must have been written by the same moron who wrote the DVD jacket: they are often a far distance from the actual Spanish dialogue, and in some situations they are simply absent, so the public is left guessing what was said. I find this insulting.Read more ›
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