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Jamón, Jamón (1992)

Director: Bigas Luna

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From Time Out Film Guide

This is 'Carry On' as scripted by Lorca, a hysterically sombre sex farce pointing up the connections between sex and food. The title is an obscure sexual compliment: machinist Silvia (Cruz) enslaves wealthy stripling José with her ham-flavoured nipples. But as one might expect from a man so fixated, José is in thrall to his mother Conchita, who doesn't want him married to the daughter of the town whore. Conchita enrols a chunky would-be torero, Raúl, to distract the nymphet. Before long he's up under Silvia's miniskirt, and it's bound to end in tears. One just wants to slap Silvia, a woman who habitually traipses around wailing in wet, clingy, baby-doll dresses. But there are compensations in Sandrelli's monstrous Conchita and Bardem's hilarious Raúl. The sex scenes are so bizarre as to be parodic and it all looks terribly ugly. But wonderful vignettes of rural life, and a terrific performance from Pablito the piglet. Ham indeed.

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Time Out Film Guide

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  • Ralph said...
    Posted on Feb 11 2009 21:48 How sweet the nipple of penelope? Very lucky the guy who suck the nipple and mreast of penelope.. It's very hard. She is only 17 years old then...
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  • Jack said...
    Posted on Sep 02 2008 08:38 This is one most erotic movie I have seen.Lots of breast sucking scene by penelope.I don't know how she agreed to do so many scene in this movie.The actor had fun by her nipples again & again.
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Cast & crew

Director: Bigas Luna

Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez

Cast: Anna Galiena, Javier Bardem, Stefania Sandrelli, Juan Diego, Jodi Molla, Penelope Cruz full cast

Duration: 94 mins


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