1992 · drama · comedy · erotic
Jamón Jamón
Directed by Bigas Luna1h 34m1992
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Our read: Jamón Jamón (1992) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy · erotic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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