JAMON JAMON

From director Bigas Luna (Golden Balls) comes Jam?n Jam?n starring Academy Award« winner Pen?lope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) making her motion picture debut opposite Academy Award« winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) and co-starring Jordi Moll? (In the Heart of the Sea), Stefania Sandrelli (1900) and Juan Diego (Your Next Life). Written for the screen by Cuca Canals, Bigas Luna and Quim Monz?, Jam?n Jam?n traces the romantic entanglements of the beautiful and pregnant underwear factory worker Silvia (Cruz); Jos? Luis (Moll?), the father of her child and heir to the factory fortune; Raul (Bardem), underwear model, seducer and would-be-bullfighter; and Conchita (Sandrelli), Jos? Luis' doting mother, family matriarch and Raul's lover. Through a series of Machiavellian plot machinations, Conchita will seek to tear apart the relationship between her wealthy son and the second-class Silvia. Melodramatic, surreal (a duel using ham legs is a highlight) and oozing with sexual tension, Jam?n Jam?n is soap opera at it's grandest.