Jamón, jamón (1992)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Bigas Luna

Writers:

Cuca Canals (writer)
Bigas Luna (writer)

Release Date:

February 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A dish of a woman

Plot:

Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor...

Plot Keywords:

Underwear | Son | Seduction | Hate | Publicity

Awards:

4 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Stefania Sandrelli	...	La madre puta
Anna Galiena	...	La puta madre
Juan Diego	...	El padre
Penélope Cruz	...	La hija de puta
Javier Bardem	...	El chorizo
Jordi Mollà	...	El niñato (as Jordi Molla)
Tomás Martín	...	Amigo Raúl (as Tomás Penco)
Armando del Río	...	Amigo José Luis
Diana Sassen	...	Amiga Silvia
Chema Mazo	...	Padre de Silvia
Isabel de Castro Oros	...	Hermana Silvia
Nazaret Callao	...	Hermana Silvia
Marianne Hermitte	...	La chica del perro en el puticlub
Nadia Godoy	...	La que canta en el puticlub
María Reniu	...	Chica en puticlub

Also Known As:

A Tale of Ham and Passion (USA) (video title)
Ham Ham
Salami, Salami

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:(Banned) | Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Peru:18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:Open (rating surrendered: 1993) | USA:R (original rating: 1993) | Canada:R (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Aragón, Spain

Company:

Lolafilms

Trivia:

In Spanish, the word "jamon" not only means "ham" but also "a dish of a woman".

Movie Connections:

Featured in Bigas Luna - La mirada entomòloga (2008)

Soundtrack:

EL DRAMA DEL TORO

Comedy turns to drama

Very interesting the way Bigas Luna joins together many elements: surrealism and realism, Italian new-realism and Almodovar's humorist notion in some situations. Certainly, a typical Spanish film of great inspiration which turns to nothing, because of the exaggerated plot about sexual relations with improper persons... same person for mother - daughter, son! - thus resuming to an idea of very bad notion about morals in Spain - both for wealthy and poor. Although acting was very good, also the photography. I mention the excellent acting of Javier Bardem who keeps all the interest in this film, with his role of a "payed lover" turned to a deeply in love desperado of the type of those who have nothing to loose except their own life... in a relationship which starts as a joke and turns to a drama.