

So-so acting by a very young Penélope Cruz who becomes pregnant, she plays an obstinate girl whose naïve dreams are soon shattered by the ruthlessness and mediocre Jordi Mollá as Jose Luis, an executive at his parents underwear factory who wants to marry Sylvia. As usual in Bigas Luna films, ¨Jamón, Jamon¨ explores the darkest depths of eroticism and Latinos stereotypical, including the Spanish machismo.

This interesting flick results to be a moving tale about ambition, desire, luxury and poorness. This stirring as well as erotic story is a touching retelling and moving tale about wishes, lies and disappointments, but including strong sex scenes with loads of nudism. Entertaining and modern picture filled with young roles and concerning a beautiful girl who wishes a better life and becomes involved with a passionate triangle. Here Bigas Luna delivers his ordinary and erotic goods in cool sense of style, but including a lot of unkindly characters. This is a decent film, being first part of Bigas Luna's "Iberian Trilogy", it is stylishly photographed and smartly designed. The special film title ¨Jamón, Jamón¨, that's why in Spanish, the word "jamón" means ''ham'', while a ''jamóna'' is a ''dish of a woman". Weird melodrama satirizing various aspects of the Spaniard characters, including machismo, ¨Toros and Toreo¨, food and sex. As his mother to be opposed to this relationship to a young girl from a lower-class family, and she then hires stud Raul (Javier Bardem), to seduce Sylvia, only to fall for him himself. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents to be aware Conchita, she is appalled and seeks an extreme solution. The brothel's Carmen (Anna Galiena) and the Factory's Conchita (Stefania Sandrelli) clash when Carmen's daughter becomes pregnant by Manuel. In the factory works as an executive, Manuel (Jordi Mollá), chief's (Juan Diego) son, and also his girlfriend Sylvia (Penélope Cruz was 16 years old when this movie was made) works on the shop floor making male underwear. Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10 Comedic melodrama satirizing several Spanish characters such as as food, bullfighting, underwear clothes and many other thingsĪ small Spanish town is dominated by two businesses, -an underwear factory and a brothel- both run by strong-minded women.
