Ham on Rye review: a dreamy portrait of adolescence
Ham on Rye is streaming on Mubi. âDo you know what itâs like to be one of the lucky ones?â 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 Iâm 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 of the German New Age composer Deuter, who favours a haunting, elegiac flute.
Source: bfi.org.uk