Cork

2022

1h 56m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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8 Reviews

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A young, vulnerable couple inherits a cork-harvesting farm in rural Catalonia. As newly fledged landowners, they dream of building a fair and sustainable life, only to find their ideals clash head-on with their dire need to make money.

Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

A film about how the contemporaries issues crosses our individual lifes. [Full review in Spanish]

Mar 23, 2023

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Although Gurrea’s film is booby trapped for explosions, he repeatedly chooses the more interesting slow-burn path.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 17, 2023

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Randy Meeks

Espinof

Cork reminds us that all that glitters isn't gold, and that a move won't solve intimate problems. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Dec 12, 2022

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Blai Morell

Fotogramas

Mikel Gurrea builds a devastating chronicle about the disintegration of that imagined harmonious Arcadia. [Full review in Spanish]

Dec 3, 2022

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Elsa Fernández-Santos

El Pais (Spain)

A bristly story, slightly uneven for wanting to mix too many things, but carried from beginning to end by two class performances. [Full review in Spanish]

Dec 3, 2022

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Nuria Vidal

Cinemanía (Spain)

One of the best endings in Spanish cinema demonstrating that a change in landscape is not enough to change who we really are. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Dec 1, 2022

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Morgan X

This film didn't end up exploring the urban couples transition to a different lifestyle as I'd expected. Instead it's a bleak almost horror movie of what happens when middle class liberals try and leave normality. The acting is strong and there's some genuine moments of empathy with their lot. But the film doesn't really examine the highs and lows of their endeavour. It one sidedly descends into a tragedy that tends to play on rural sterotypes rather than explore this lifestyle and/ or contrast it with the values of city life. There's no moments of them enjoying the outdoors, pace of life, free from the neurosis and consumerism of the city. Like why have they even bothered? Ideologically the film feels very conservative in that we can't really escape market logic or colonialism arguments to the contrary are childish and easily dismissed. The couple wind up, at least aesthetically, recreating a Barcelona in the pueblo, only traumatised rather than enhanced by life outside the metropolis.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/23/23

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Synopsis

A young, vulnerable couple inherits a cork-harvesting farm in rural Catalonia. As newly fledged landowners, they dream of building a fair and sustainable life, only to find their ideals clash head-on with their dire need to make money.

Director: Mikel Gurrea
Producer: Tono Folguera, Laura Rubirola, Claudia Maluenda, Xabier Berzosa
Screenwriter: Mikel Gurrea, Francisco Kosterlitz
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Catalan
Runtime: 1h 56m