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Ham on Rye is streaming on Mubi. “Do you know what it’s like to be one of the lucky ones?” sings the John Peel-approved Australian outfit Even As We Speak over the opening credits of the baffling and seductive Ham on Rye. This is Blue Eyes Deceiving Me, one of several chiming pop songs (another is Tonight I’m Gonna Fall in Love by the 1960s girl group The Teardrops) on the soundtrack. These numbers break ecstatically through a dreamy score drawn from the back catalogue...