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Jamon Jamon [VHS]
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $29.49
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Starring: Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304326299
Format: Color
ISBN: 1572520698
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: 1997-11-11
Running Time: 95
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-02
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Editorial Reviews:
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Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna's Jamón Jamón is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavor, but there is an edge, perhaps a heavy-handedness, to the dark humor that is either Luna's success or his downfall. The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, after all. Try to follow: sexy Penelope Cruz (Belle Epoque) is growing up with her mother outside town on the highway, on the wrong side of the highway. Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past. Cruz is in love with Jordà Molla, by whom she is pregnant. Molla's bourgeois mother, played by Anna Galiena (Being Human), thinks he can and should do better. (Of course, neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic, hmm, avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side.) To save her son from the lower classes, Galiena hires Javier Bardem, a muscular, pretty man (whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal) to pursue Cruz. The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death. This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides. After each surprise, you'll chuckle, feel guilty, and chuckle again. --Erik Macki
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Almodovar? Not exactly
Comment: When discussing Almodovar's films, one almost always has to discuss them in terms of what they almost are, or started to be, or could have been. When recently asked to name one that actually fulfilled its promise, the film that came to mind wasn't his -- it was this one.
Interesting, the most extreme reviews here seem driven by the presence of sexual encounter in this movie -- either for or against. I don't find that the presence or absence of sexual interaction determines the quality of a film, but this one certainly has plenty of it. Can this be justified in terms of art?
This is no mere date flick; this is mythic symbolism, which is a valid art form. That we are not intended to take this film literally is evident by the closing scene, which leaves the characters in deliberately unnatural poses. I do not know recent Spanish history well enough to comprehend everything this movie is showing us, but it is saying several things quite strongly, and saying them in large, broad strokes.
This is the problem with being literary rather than literal: many people are annoyed by seeing a film that doesn't make it's message plain & simple enough for everyone. Almodovar avoids this trap by favoring doses of the ridiculous, thus shorting both his message and our criticism; Bigas didn't take such an easy road.
And - to be fair - he may not have entirely succeeded. But this movie attempts much more than its lurid and seemingly comedic premise; time will judge the result. Put this one next to Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, and see what you think.
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Summary: Good movie, slightly funky delivery format
Comment: This is a great movie (possibly not for all tastes), particularly resonant for those who know old and new Spain. The movie is basically about raw animal drives subverting the attempt to civilize and modernize.
Apparently it is not available in US NTSC format. However, this transfer is pretty decent quality if you have a multi-region player - with some caveats. It is delivered in the annoying letterbox format, a 16:9 image within a 4:3 frame.
On a 4:3 screen, the subtitles appear in the letterbox area, which is OK. However, on a widescreen TV, if you zoom in so that the image fills the screen, you lose the subtitles. If you stay zoomed out, you end up with a small image surrounded by black on all sides.
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Summary: Jamon Jamon from Spain Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem just starting careers
Comment: The dvd did not work in my player, Amazon didn't sent a packing order, so I reterned the dvd directly to the return address on the package. Havn't heard back from them in two months, so I'm out the dvd and the forty dollars.
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Summary: about the movie Jamon Jamon.........
Comment: I have bought and watched this copy of film/movie and later thrown away by my father 'this type the THISS' which is the mouse or 'traid' thing which refuses these type of movies and say this which later gives lots of headaches (very small 'thing', chinese whom study Lu Xun by hard, lines on DVD will cause them to do 'well')....whatever since never says anything but anyway, this is a full film/movie which comes in region 4 which contains one more scene which is female 'perversion' scene. The story, on the whole, is saying that all the family member in the family is good for nothing, that's all....Recommended to those whom are interested in this genre of film/movie.....
Review by:
(Dr)Ang Poon Kah
Rogue University Professor Certificate
Imagine entertainment for film/movie the Da Vinci Code.
Zakkers film director.
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Summary: See'em before they were famous
Comment: A great example of eclectic spanish movie making staring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, both of whom obviously went on to great things. The story and dialog is quintessentially spanish and may not resonate fully in English, but the ending is fantastic in any language.
In particular, if you are a fan of Bardem's outstanding recent work, you will want to see him in this movie. His character drives the movie and is full of amusing surprises while Cruz does her thing, which works a lot better in Spanish than English, in my view.
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