Jamon Jamon

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Movie
German title Jamon Jamon
Original title Jamón, jamón
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1992
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bigas Luna
script Cuca Canals
Bigas Luna
Quim Monzó
production Andrés Vicente Gómez
music Nicola Piovani
camera José Luis Alcaine
cut Teresa Font
occupation

Jamon Jamon , also known in Germany under the title Lust auf Fleisch , is a film by the Spanish director Bigas Luna from 1992. The film is based on an original script by Cuca Canals , Luna and Quim Monzó and was made by the film studios Lolafilms SA , Ovídeo TV SA and Sogepaq and filmed in the barren Aragonese landscape of the Monegros .

action

José Luis is the offspring of an entrepreneurial family that makes underwear. He falls in love with the seamstress Silvia, who grew up in humble circumstances and whose mother José Luis probably initiated sex. José Luis' mother finds out about the love affair and wants to prevent her son from getting involved with Silvia at all costs. To do this, she hires Raúl, a simple worker who is particularly well equipped and therefore works as an underwear dresser for the company. He manages to relax José Luis from Silvia, who is now pregnant by him. But that's not all. José Luis' mother wants to be desired by Raúl herself and she fulfills his material wishes. He spoils her, while Silvia has now really fallen in love with Raúl and has lost respect for her mother's boy José Luis. In an incredible showdown, this one challenges Raúl; they fight a duel with large legs of ham.

interpretation

One could dismiss the film by simply repeating clichés, but these are heavily exaggerated here and should be reduced to absurdity: Silvia is only beautiful and naive; Raúl corresponds completely to the cliché of the Latin lover who eats raw garlic, works in a ham depot and thinks only of slot machines, sex and motorbikes; José Luis' mother is quite the typical neglected wife who does everything to feel attractive again, but at the same time also the super-mother who has to protect her poor boy from the wrong partner.

There are also other clichés: at a family celebration there is a giant pan, which is of course excellently prepared by the poor seamstress and her mother; At the beginning, Silvia and José Luis had their love nest under the Osborne bull , the symbol of Spain; The abandoned and desperate José Luis drums against its mighty tin testicles until they break off. Raúl Gonzales ( Javier Bardem ) and his also well-equipped friend José Gabrieles ( Tomás Penco ) fight bullfights at night in an abandoned arena. Both men are naked and wave their erect limbs. The great thing about the film is that it offers an incredible wealth of symbols and composes them into a coherent plot.

Reviews

  • "'Jamón, Jamón' is an exalted dance of death about eros and status symbols, sex and violence, in which the living relics of the Middle Ages collide with the year 2000." ( Fischer Film Almanach 1994)
  • "Melodrama simmering on an erotic flame that does not leave out any (role) cliché to come to the questionable statement that all women are mothers and whores and all men are machos and wimpy in one." ( Lexicon of the international film )
  • “What the eccentric director advertises as a kind of Spanish ham and manners anthology is a crude mixture of porn, farce, melodrama and moderately funny horror piece from the old days (...) Only in the tasteless fortissimo of the final sequence does the intended satire find its own Style. "(Tip Berlin)

Awards

In 1993 the film was nominated in six categories for the most important Spanish film award, the Goya . In the categories of Best Film and Best Director, the comedy lost out to Fernando Trueba's Belle Epoque . Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz were nominated for best leading actor Alfredo Landa ( La Marrana ) and Ariadna Gil ( Belle Epoque ) respectively.

Goya 1993

  • nominated in the categories
    • Best movie
    • Best director
    • Best original script
    • Best Actor (Javier Bardem)
    • Best Actress (Penélope Cruz)
    • Best tone

Further

Cinema Writers Circle Awards 1993

  • Best Actor (Javier Bardem)

Sant Jordi Award 1993

  • Best Spanish Actor (Javier Bardem)

Spanish Actors Union 1993

  • Best Young Actor (Javier Bardem)
  • nominated in the category Best Young Actress (Penélope Cruz)

Venice Film Festival 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamon Jamon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 9, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used