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Jamon Jamon (1992)

★ 6.2 · 400 ratings on TMDB

A film where women eat men and men eat ham

Jamon Jamon poster★ 6.2

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.

DirectorBigas Luna
CastAnna Galiena, Armando del Río, Chema Mazo, Diana Sassen, Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Jamon Jamon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, gender, power, desire, culture.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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