Jamón Jamón

The great Bigas Luna has just passed away, and I have rushed to get whatever movies I did not yet have. For years i had a second copy of Jamon, Jamon, the first time Cruz and Bardem were together, in a fateful move that years later would make them a couple. Both were dazzlingly beautiful and given ample opportunities to flaunt their charms. An irreverent premise (a contest to determine what male has the best equipment to launch a line of male underwear that quickly turns into a tragedy of Lorca's proportions. I have waited for years for it, since many of Bigas' mvies, including his awarded La teta y la luna, can only be found in Region 2 format. Get it NOWW!A word of caution: this film contains all of the themes that Bigas Luna was going to obsess over in subsequent movies, especially his fixation on female breasts, stallion males, and enough soap to fill an entire TV afternoon. Not for minors, not for schools.Bardem's character is really a ham salesman, hence the title. I think this movie had a direct influence on Almodovar's early "What Have I done to Deserve This".

For the Hollywood followers, this would be a "punch in the gut", raw and possibly an illusion of the incomplete experience. This movie brings two European gigantic characters ( Bardem and Cruz) and their multilayered and unpredictable acting which does not mean unprofessional or irresponsible, quite opposite, controlled wild energy of nature. If you keep an open mind and give it a chance to that world, you will grateful for doing it. The last 10 minutes of the movie will give you second and third thoughts and possibly, warm waves of memory. You deserved it...

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.

Twenty-five years ago, I rented Jamon, Jamon from a local video store. This movie was fascinating, and I am thrilled to have it as part of my movie collection. Jamon, Jamon is the film that made Penelope Cruz famous. It brought me joy that she and her current husband were featured in that film.

Its good movie... Yes its plays on north american format and is on real disc. The movie is in spanish with no subtitles feature eavailable. The audio video transfer is not tbe best... In fact its seems little grainy in quality maybe the master copy is damaged from ravages of time its clearly not remastered by any means... But i purchased the film for total of $11.99 including shipping as i have hunted this film for more ten years. To me it was worth it to finally see it but i will still look to buy better version made by a american film company. This mexican "zima" company must not have the funds to create top notch DVD quality and features. Over all im glad to have got to see the film but it needs a better production distribution company to release it. I give it 3 stars... I take one off for audio and one off for video quality but it is fine film but great talents.

I was looking for a place to stream this movie and I couldn't find it anywhere, except for a version dubbed in Russian, so I thought I'd buy the dvd. The quality of this dvd is that of a 20 year old vhs tape... but not in a good way. Shocked that I had to pay $17 for this. The movie was good though, would love to watch a version where I can see what is going on.

This is a good movie, funny movie. I've owned this movie on VHS tape for several years, and was happy to finally find it available on DVD. There is one major (to me at least) problem with the DVD though. The audio is only in Spanish; there are no English sub-titles like on the VHS version. Amazon, or the vendors, need to identify that in the description of the movie so that non-spanish speaking customers will not be disappointed with the DVD.

No English subtitles otherwise a great bluray. You need a region free player in the USA. An amazing film. Surreal, comic , erotic, brilliant. Two big stars at a very young age. Penelope Cruze and Javier Bardem. I am not fluent in Spanish but I understood what was happening. In fact watching without subtitles allowed me to appreciate the images more. I guess you can wait for the American release. I couldn't.

Quel plaisir de redécouvrir le 1er film de Pénélope Cruz !

Hoewel aanbieder meldt dat het een Engelstalige versie is, heb ik de Spaans-talige ontvangen. Geen andere ondertitels mogelijk. Klopt overigens wel met de plaatjes van het product, maar niet met de omschrijving.

Awesome

ペネロペファンなら絶対もっといたほうが良い一枚です。まだあどけないところが良い

Alles Prima, super gelaufen, gute Abwicklung. Ich bin aber nicht der Fan lange Briefe zu schreiben, wie hier angefordert ist.