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Jamon Jamon [DVD] [1992]
enlarge	Director: Bigas Luna Actors: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Anna Galiena, Stefania Sandrelli, Juan Diego Studio: Tartan Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £5.09 as of 21/11/2009 15:36 GMT details You Save: £14.90 (75%) New (17) Used (2) Collectible (1) from £5.09 Seller: findprice Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 8860 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 90 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5023965331625 ASIN: B00005421V Theatrical Release Date: 1992 Release Date: December 27, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in IJamón Jamón/I 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 (IBelle Epoque/I) 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 (IBeing Human/I), 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. --IErik Macki, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Sex and Violence in the heart of Spain May 6, 2001 46 out of 56 found this review helpful Catch Penelope Javier as they were before Hollywood got its hands on them.pIf 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!pLike 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.pThis is a road movie in which the road passes through the character's lives rather than they themselves hitting the road. pWhen 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.pSpanish 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. Classic October 26, 2007 Ana (UK) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful 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. br /...it's not your "average film", but that's what makes it worth watching :) Offbeat August 17, 2006 Carla Dee (London United Kingdom) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful 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. Wow May 15, 2003 10 out of 36 found this review helpful 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 even the best looking actress around can make up for such a bizarre and ridiculously sketchy peice of cinema. Meant to be funny, the outrageous sexual innuendo that is the script is just too strange to be humerous or even erotic. p The plot that is set up in the beginning of the movie, which had potential, breaks down as a result of the plethera of random hook-ups, many implausible, and by the time Silvia makes out with her fiance's father, one is just too wierded out to care. Some themes adressed in the movie are masculinity and the role of the man and woman, but through poor acting and trippy cinematography, even these are too blured to amount to any semblance of profoundness. All in all, if you're looking for a good movie with Penelope Cruz in it, watch Belle Epoque. Back in your box, Bigas. April 11, 2005 10 out of 19 found this review helpful A good premise. End.brThe characters are given no room to develop by a single-minded script and pretentious director lacking a soft touch.brIt is blighted with heavy-handed forced metaphors and lunas doesn't allow the viewer to think for himself. Acting is poor, largely due to appaling writing.brThis film is a blunt implement.brRent 'All about my mother' instead.

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