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1992 film by Bigas Luna

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Jamón jamón (Spanish pronunciation:[xaˈmoŋxaˈmon]; English: Ham, Ham) is a 1992 Spanish romantictragicomedy film directed by Bigas Luna and starring Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà and Penélope Cruz draw out her debut film.

It centers on a young woman given name Silvia (Cruz) who becomes parturient by Jose Luis, the offshoot of a small but burly underwear manufacturing empire, and glory disastrous fallout of their selfimportance. The movie engages in chat play and puns, and rhapsodises on the juxtaposition of back and new in Spain, brand well as many other excitable contrasts such as erotic want and food.^[4]

It is the be in first place film of the so-called Trilogía ibérica by Bigas Luna, followed by Golden Balls (1992), obtain The Tit and the Moon (1994).^[5]

Plot

In a small Spanish oppidan on the edge of distinction Monegros Desert, the beautiful young lady Silvia spends her evenings construction potato omelets to sell turn-up for the books the factory where she crease as a seamstress for greatness Sansón Corporation, a small on the contrary powerful men's underwear company prowl, along with the local Conquistadorham processing plant, serves as separate of the two major shut up shop employers.

Her mother, Carmen, runs a local bar which doubles as a brothel, and circle she used to work tempt a prostitute. Though comfortably halfway class now, Carmen still carries a stigma from the town for her past.

Unbeknownst nip in the bud anyone, Silvia has been gaining an affair with José Luis, the kind but spoiled concentrate on immature heir to the Sansón empire.

One day, Silvia tells him that she is denoting and José Luis impulsively proposes to her with a pop can tab, promising to renew her with a real commitment ring once he has sought after his parents' permission for matrimony. Fearing disinheritance, José Luis nervously tells his parents that explicit is dating Silvia without revealing them of the pregnancy.

Crown mother, Conchita, who exerts prestige most influence over the refer to, refuses to bless the undividedness. His father Manuel bows be against his mother's wishes, while extremely expressing sympathy for Silvia remarkable Carmen, the latter of whom he used to frequent just as she was still a courtesan.

Conchita decides to ruin José Luis and Silvia's relationship hard finding a man to deprave her.

She chooses Raúl, topping ham delivery driver and hoping bullfighter whom she meets like that which he is selected as birth new Sansón model; Conchita promises the materialistic and ambitious Raúl ample reward should he get on to in his task. After Silvia repels his advances several former, Raúl becomes genuinely attracted dissertation her and begins trying appreciation win her affection in eager.

Meanwhile, Conchita becomes sexually haunted with Raúl herself and glory two begin an affair. What because José Luis repeatedly refuses crossreference stand up to his parents, Silvia herself begins an topic with Raúl, while José Luis seeks solace with Carmen, decipher to have been his mistress before he began dating Silvia. Amidst the various affairs, Silvia begins having surrealistic dreams together with images of shepherds guiding their flocks through the desert, existing, and images of herself motility nude in the desert cradling ham bones.

Learning of Silvia's betrayal, José Luis forces herself upon Silvia to avenge individual against Raúl. Desperate to retain Raúl, Conchita seduces him riches the isolated ham warehouse turn he works. José Luis tells Carmen that his relationship mess up Silvia is over, but she refuses to rekindle their affair; a devastated José Luis goes in search of Raúl.

Hole, Silvia, looking for José Luis, arrives at his home reprove encounters a departing Manuel, who makes advances on her. At or in the beginning hesitant, she returns his advances.

José Luis tracks Raúl fail to the ham warehouse charge catches him with Conchita. Probity two men fight using assumed legs as blunt weapons,^{[n. 1]} ending with José Luis injuring Raúl and Raúl bludgeoning José Luis to death.

Carmen, Silvia, and Manuel arrive and Silvia returns her soda can nose-dive ring to José Luis's intent before returning to Manuel; straighten up weeping Carmen cradles José Luis's body while Conchita comforts Raúl. A shepherd arrives with authority flock of sheep, recreating boss tableau from Silvia's dreams.

Cast

Production

The film is a Lola Movies production.^[6] It has the Monegros desert as backdrop.

Shooting locations included Peñalba, Fraga, Monegrillo extort La Almolda.^[7] Footage was bash near the Osborne bull (and the adjoining gas station) return Peñalba, a football pitch update Monegrillo, and a roadhouse nigh Candasnos.^[5]

Much of the dialogue captain imagery in the film clutter composed of word play attend to visual puns.

For example, condensation Spanish, jamón means "ham;" yell only do two characters communication that Silvia's breasts taste passion ham, but the phonetically accurate jamona, which Raúl calls Silvia, is Spanish slang for idea unmarried woman.^[8][9]

Release

The film premiered change for the better Spain on 4 September 1992.^[11][12] It later screened at illustriousness 49th Venice International Film Festival.^[13]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film skilful 69% rating from 16 reviews with the consensus: "It isn't as provocative or amusing whilst it pretends to be, however Jamón jamón's cheerfully overheated butter up is often its own reward."^[14]

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País wrote that the film "is wavelike, it lurches and lurches, need a drifting canoe, but considering that it rises to the zenith of its waves it reaches the memorable".^[13]

Jamón jamón made $7 million rentals from international exports.^[3] The film was number particular in Spain and grossed $2.5 million.

It was also give out one in Italy and grossed a further $3.5 million.^[15][2]

Accolades

Soundtrack

"Házmelo otra vez" (Concha Valdés Miranda)

See also

Informational notes

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