Jamón, jamón (1992)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Bigas Luna

Escritores:

Cuca Canals (writer)
Bigas Luna (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

febrero 1994 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

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

Premios:

4 wins & 9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Brilliantly funny but not to everyone's taste

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

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

Duración:

95 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

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)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Aragón, Spain

Compañía:

Lolafilms

Trivialidades:

Penelope was 16 years old when this movie was made.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Bigas Luna - La mirada entomòloga (2008)

Banda de Sonido:

LAS TORTILLAS DE SILVIA

Brilliantly funny but not to everyone's taste

Now, it would be a boring world if everyone had the same opinion on everything and the same sense of humour. What is sad, though, is the astonishing inability of some of the above reviewers even to appreciate that their understanding of this film might actually be a teens-weensy bit different from that of other cinemagoers.

And I never cease to be amazed by the complaint often aired on this website that a film is subtitled. How terribly shocking it must be for you to discover that not everyone in the world speaks English. It shouldn't be allowed, should it?

Jamon, jamon is obviously not to everyone's taste. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone I know, because the humour and the plot are idiosynchratic, to say the least. I regarded this films as a massive, but not at all serious, send-up of machismo and how it interacts with greed and lust. Above all, it is meant to make you laugh, rather than portray some profound message about the human condition. For example, although I can't speak for the Director, I suspect that the naked bullfight scene was simply meant to be absurd and, hence, to make you laugh. Anyone who thinks it is pretentious has simply missed the point and is pretentious himself because he is reading things into the scene which are non-existent. Not everyone will find a scene like that funny but I personally was in stitches, as I was during the parrot scene, the ham fight scene and many other eminently unforgettable scenes. What I can't say in all honesty is that everybody else in the auditorium found it quite as funny as I did.