Jamon Jamon is a movie from 1992 starring a young (about 23-year-old) Javier Bardem, an even younger (about 18-year-old) Penelope Cruz in her film debut, and Jordi Molla. The movie itself is bad. It is a very over-the-top soap opera (think every stereotype of the telenovela that has ever been shown on a US TV show lampooning Mexican or Spanish soap operas). It is part comedy, part drama, with a lot of WTF thrown in. Essentially, the story boils down to Cruz's character becoming pregnant by the son of a local underwear manufacturer (Molla) and then having an affair with Bardem's character, Raul. As I said, you do get to see a very young Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz in a movie that I would love to hear their honest thoughts on now.
The Blu-ray itself is very bare bones. It includes just the film, with the ability to play it with or without English subtitles. The movie itself is in Spanish. The video transfer and audio quality are okay for a low-budget foreign film from 1992. It is definitely not a great remastered transfer, but it is not the kind of movie that would ever get that.
The Blu-ray itself is very bare bones. It includes just the film, with the ability to play it with or without English subtitles. The movie itself is in Spanish. The video transfer and audio quality are okay for a low-budget foreign film from 1992. It is definitely not a great remastered transfer, but it is not the kind of movie that would ever get that.
