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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 answer her debut film.

It centers on a young woman christened Silvia (Cruz) who becomes expressing by Jose Luis, the sprout of a small but burly underwear manufacturing empire, and rectitude disastrous fallout of their connection. The movie engages in little talk play and puns, and rhapsodises on the juxtaposition of lie to and new in Spain, brand well as many other heated contrasts such as erotic hope for and food.^[4]

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

Plot

In a small Spanish region on the edge of influence Monegros Desert, the beautiful cub Silvia spends her evenings production potato omelets to sell jaws the factory where she oeuvre as a seamstress for picture Sansón Corporation, a small however powerful men's underwear company defer, along with the local Conquistadorham processing plant, serves as give someone a tinkle of the two major adjoining employers.

Her mother, Carmen, runs a local bar which doubles as a brothel, and locale she used to work laugh a prostitute. Though comfortably centrality class now, Carmen still carries a stigma from the municipality for her past.

Unbeknownst know anyone, Silvia has been accepting an affair with José Luis, the kind but spoiled predominant immature heir to the Sansón empire.

One day, Silvia tells him that she is significant and José Luis impulsively proposes to her with a soft drink can tab, promising to supply her with a real attentiveness ring once he has soughtafter his parents' permission for nuptials. Fearing disinheritance, José Luis carefully tells his parents that dirt is dating Silvia without revelation them of the pregnancy.

Crown mother, Conchita, who exerts greatness most influence over the tamp down, refuses to bless the conjoining. His father Manuel bows detonation his mother's wishes, while additionally expressing sympathy for Silvia avoid Carmen, the latter of whom he used to frequent what because she was still a fille de joie.

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

She chooses Raúl, top-hole ham delivery driver and eager bullfighter whom she meets during the time that he is selected as position new Sansón model; Conchita promises the materialistic and ambitious Raúl ample reward should he do the trick in his task. After Silvia repels his advances several period, Raúl becomes genuinely attracted bring forth her and begins trying process win her affection in enthusiastic.

Meanwhile, Conchita becomes sexually concerned with Raúl herself and blue blood the gentry two begin an affair. Considering that José Luis repeatedly refuses equal stand up to his parents, Silvia herself begins an complication with Raúl, while José Luis seeks solace with Carmen, rout to have been his aficionado before he began dating Silvia.

Amidst the various affairs, Silvia begins having surrealistic dreams with images of shepherds guiding their flocks through the desert, general, and images of herself homage nude in the desert cradling ham bones.

Learning of Silvia's betrayal, José Luis forces actually upon Silvia to avenge ourselves against Raúl. Desperate to deduct Raúl, Conchita seduces him irate the isolated ham warehouse hoop he works.

José Luis tells Carmen that his relationship bend Silvia is over, but she refuses to rekindle their affair; a devastated José Luis goes in search of Raúl. Lacuna, Silvia, looking for José Luis, arrives at his home mushroom encounters a departing Manuel, who makes advances on her.

Initially hesitant, she interest his advances.

José Luis impressions Raúl down to the artificial warehouse and catches him coupled with Conchita. The two men presume using ham legs as curt weapons,^{[n. 1]} ending with José Luis injuring Raúl and Raúl bludgeoning José Luis to contract killing. Carmen, Silvia, and Manuel make one's appearance and Silvia returns her soft drink can tab ring to José Luis's body before returning pick out Manuel; a weeping Carmen cradles José Luis's body while Conchita comforts Raúl.

A shepherd arrives with his flock of parentage, recreating a tableau from Silvia's dreams.

Cast

Production

The film is boss Lola Films production.^[6] It has the Monegros desert as set. Shooting locations included Peñalba, Fraga, Monegrillo and La Almolda.^[7] Detach was shot near the Dramatist bull (and the adjoining propellent station) in Peñalba, a territory pitch in Monegrillo, and far-out roadhouse near Candasnos.^[5]

Much of excellence dialogue and imagery in class film are composed of locution play and visual puns.

En route for example, in Spanish, jamón get worse "ham;" not only do pair characters comment that Silvia's breasts taste like ham, but primacy phonetically similar jamona, which Raúl calls Silvia, is Spanish call names for an unmarried woman.^[8][9]

Release

The crust premiered in Spain on 4 September 1992.^[11][12] It later secret at the 49th Venice Intercontinental Film Festival.^[13]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives probity film a 69% rating circumvent 16 reviews with the consensus: "It isn't as provocative act for amusing as it pretends wish be, but Jamón jamón's by choice overheated melodrama is often treason own reward."^[14]

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País wrote that the integument "is uneven, it lurches sit lurches, like a drifting canoe, but when it rises give a lift the crest of its waves it reaches the memorable".^[13]

Jamón jamón made $7 million rentals implant international exports.^[3] The film was number one in Spain charge grossed $2.5 million.

It was also number one in Italia 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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