Jamon, Jamon (1992 Luna), film (es) ESP

When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.

Bigas Luna’s cinema has frequently skirted the boundaries of taste. Nowhere more so than in his two films with Javier Bardem. If the later Golden Balls (1992) was a little too outrageous for its own good, this earlier film is more playful. It stars Penélope Cruz, in her first film role, as a young woman whose romantic involvement with the son of a local business magnate prompts a series of betrayals and affairs. Cruz is good, but Bardem steals every scene as a ham delivery driver.

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