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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.

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Guillem Martinez Oya Cinematismo 03/23/2023
A film about how the contemporaries issues crosses our individual lifes. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film 03/17/2023
4/5
Although Gurrea’s film is booby trapped for explosions, he repeatedly chooses the more interesting slow-burn path. Go to Full Review Randy Meeks Espinof 12/12/2022
4/5
Cork reminds us that all that glitters isn't gold, and that a move won't solve intimate problems. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Blai Morell Fotogramas 12/03/2022
Mikel Gurrea builds a devastating chronicle about the disintegration of that imagined harmonious Arcadia. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Elsa Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) 12/03/2022
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] Go to Full Review Nuria Vidal Cinemanía (Spain) 12/01/2022
4/5
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] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Morgan X @RT81723267 08/22/2023 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. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Mikel Gurrea

Director

Vicky Luengo

Elena

Pol López

Ivan

Ilyass El Ouahdani

Karim

Josep Estragués

Enric

David Parcet

Maurici
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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, Xabier Berzosa
Screenwriter
Mikel Gurrea, Francisco Kosterlitz
Production Co
Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC), Irusoin, Malmo Pictures, Lastor Media, Nocturna Pictures, Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Televisió de Catalunya (TV3)
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Catalan
Runtime
1h 55m
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