 | Jamon Jamon [Read More ...] Description: Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna's Jamón Jamón is intelligent, wry, and--d... |
 | Mouth to Mouth [Read More ...] Review: A good Spanish comedy about a struggling actor:Javier Bardem plays Victor Ventura, a young man who moves to Madrid to make it as an actor. While waiting for his big break, he struggles to make ends meet as a pizza delivery man. Forced to find a way to make more money, he become... |
 | Running Out of Time [Read More ...] Description: A reckless Basque terrorist and a junkie prostitute fall in lust in the petty criminal underworld of Madrid in Imanol Uribe's loose update of Prosper Merimée's classic Carmen (by way of Juan Madrid's novel Dias Contados). Antonio (Carmelo Gómez, star of Julio Medem's The R... |
 | Live Flesh [Read More ...] Review: Far from Almodovar's best!:I really don't know how so many people love this film. I just watched it and it is by far Almodovar's worst film.
My biggest problem with the film is that he does not build the characters AT ALL! Why did Helena do what she did? Was she guilty or bor... |