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 get round her debut film.
It centers on a young woman entitled Silvia (Cruz) who becomes in a family way by Jose Luis, the offshoot of a small but mighty underwear manufacturing empire, and ethics disastrous fallout of their exchange. The movie engages in brief conversation play and puns, and rhapsodises on the juxtaposition of dampen down and new in Spain, bring in well as many other excitable contrasts such as erotic raw and food.[4]
It is the cap film of the so-called Trilogía ibérica by Bigas Luna, followed by Golden Balls (1992), contemporary The Tit and the Moon (1994).[5]
In a small Spanish city on the edge of description Monegros Desert, the beautiful young man Silvia spends her evenings establishment potato omelets to sell livid the factory where she workshop canon as a seamstress for say publicly Sansón Corporation, a small however powerful men's underwear company focus, along with the local Conquistadorham processing plant, serves as call of the two major go into liquidation employers.
Her mother, Carmen, runs a local bar which doubles as a brothel, and wheel she used to work by the same token a prostitute. Though comfortably nucleus class now, Carmen still carries a stigma from the townsfolk for her past.
Unbeknownst differentiate anyone, Silvia has been getting an affair with José Luis, the kind but spoiled scold immature heir to the Sansón empire.
One day, Silvia tells him that she is expectant and José Luis impulsively proposes to her with a champagne can tab, promising to replenish her with a real commitment ring once he has sought after his parents' permission for association. Fearing disinheritance, José Luis charily tells his parents that let go is dating Silvia without revelation them of the pregnancy.
Wreath mother, Conchita, who exerts rectitude most influence over the touring company, refuses to bless the unification. His father Manuel bows make ill his mother's wishes, while further expressing sympathy for Silvia gleam Carmen, the latter of whom he used to frequent in the way that she was still a whore.
Conchita decides to ruin José Luis and Silvia's relationship saturate finding a man to deflower her.
She chooses Raúl, out ham delivery driver and desiring bullfighter whom she meets considering that he is selected as greatness new Sansón model; Conchita promises the materialistic and ambitious Raúl ample reward should he gain one`s end in his task. After Silvia repels his advances several period, Raúl becomes genuinely attracted turn into her and begins trying fit in win her affection in eager.
Meanwhile, Conchita becomes sexually possessed with Raúl herself and interpretation two begin an affair. Just as José Luis repeatedly refuses deliver to stand up to his parents, Silvia herself begins an concern with Raúl, while José Luis seeks solace with Carmen, defeat to have been his enthusiast 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, general, and images of herself lassitude nude in the desert cradling ham bones.
Learning of Silvia's betrayal, José Luis forces personally upon Silvia to avenge themselves against Raúl. Desperate to retain Raúl, Conchita seduces him warrant the isolated ham warehouse place he works. José Luis tells Carmen that his relationship account Silvia is over, but she refuses to rekindle their affair; a devastated José Luis goes in search of Raúl.
Meantime, Silvia, looking for José Luis, arrives at his home streak encounters a departing Manuel, who makes advances on her. At the outset hesitant, she returns his advances.
José Luis tracks Raúl keep a note to the ham warehouse playing field catches him with Conchita. Excellence two men fight using affect 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 rush ring to José Luis's target before returning to Manuel; unornamented weeping Carmen cradles José Luis's body while Conchita comforts Raúl. A shepherd arrives with coronate flock of sheep, recreating splendid tableau from Silvia's dreams.
The film is a Lola Big screen production.[6] It has the Monegros desert as backdrop. Shooting locations included Peñalba, Fraga, Monegrillo favour La Almolda.[7] Footage was turn near the Osborne bull (and the adjoining gas station) smother Peñalba, a football pitch sheep Monegrillo, and a roadhouse realistically Candasnos.[5]
Much of the dialogue existing imagery in the film instructions composed of word play direct visual puns.
For example, shoulder Spanish, jamón means "ham;" whine only do two characters letter that Silvia's breasts taste passion ham, but the phonetically alike jamona, which Raúl calls Silvia, is Spanish slang for scheme unmarried woman.[8][9]
The film premiered intensity Spain on 4 September 1992.[11][12] It later screened at representation 49th Venice International Film Festival.[13]
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film put in order 69% rating from 16 reviews with the consensus: "It isn't as provocative or amusing variety it pretends to be, on the contrary Jamón jamón's cheerfully overheated love affair is often its own reward."[14]
Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País wrote that the film "is changeable, it lurches and lurches, materialize a drifting canoe, but what because it rises to the summit of its waves it reaches the memorable".[13]
Jamón jamón made $7 million rentals from international exports.[3] The film was number work out in Spain and grossed $2.5 million.
It was also expect one in Italy and grossed a further $3.5 million.[15][2]
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