- Jamón, jamón
Infobox Film
name = Jamón, jamón
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director =Bigas Luna
producer = Andrés Vicente Gómez
writer = Cuca CanalsBigas Luna Quim Monzó (Dialogue )
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starring =Javier Bardem Penélope Cruz
music =Nicola Piovani
cinematography =José Luis Alcaine
editing = Teresa Font
distributor =USA Academy Entertainment Inc
released = 1992
runtime = 95 mins
country =Spain
language = Spanish
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imdb_id = 0104545"Jamón, jamón" is a
1992 Spanishdrama /comedy film directed byBigas Luna and starringJavier Bardem ,Jordi Mollà andPenélope Cruz (in her debut film). It centers around a young woman named Silvia (played by Penélope Cruz). The film is bursting with sexual energy and twisted romantic relationships. Characters have primal lusts, which are described with meat and animalimagery . One of Silvia's suitors (Raúl, played by Javier Bardem) is a wannabebullfighter , and Silvia's other main love interest (José Luis, her boyfriend in the early parts of the film) suggests that her breasts taste likeham . At the end of the movie, the two characters vying for her affection beat each other with enormous cuts ofserrano ham .Plot
The story is about Silvia working at José Luis' parents factory. They fall in love and Silvia ends up pregnant by José. José acts childish and is mean to Silvia, who falls for Raúl, who is paid by José's mother to make her fall in love with him.
Title
In Spanish, "
jamón " means "ham ." Repeating "jamón, jamón, jamón..." is a childrenlanguage game , since it sounds like "monja, monja, monja..." ("nun, nun, nun")Location
The film was shot on the
Monegros desert of Zaragoza.Awards
*Bigas Luna's direction of this
comedy won theSilver Lion at the 1992Venice Film Festival .External links
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