[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57_ZGoBs4qc[/youtube]
One of the couples we’ll meet in the various pairings of Vicky Cristina Barcelona are Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz as Juan Antonio and his ex-wife Maria Elena (described by Andrew O’Hehir as “a free-floating agent of chaos whose only role is to disrupt and destroy all possible manifestations of the central triangle.”) Propelled directly into the wrecked aftermath of their explosive relationship, we never see the early, middle and late stages of this marriage in meltdown. What would these two bombshells have been like as young lovers? We can only imagine — except in the movie universe, we can do more than daydream. We can fantasize wonder, and we’d find a gorgeous clue from 1992, in this sizzling scene from “Jam√≥n, jam√≥n.” [Very likely not safe for work, and very nearly too hot for planet Earth.]
(thanks to Pierre de Plume for the tip to this fiery flashback.)