Sacacorchos
2016 · 10m · España
Directed by Majo Moreno
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
Nuria and Alfredo have just got married. After the ceremony they want to keep celebrating their love with games and wine, but the loss of an object becomes the first obstacle in their relationship.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A wedding comedy that starts conventional and then just... sits with marital friction over a lost corkscrew? It's restrained enough to avoid the obvious beats, but it doesn't quite commit to the absurdity it's halfway toward—the film wants to be both intimate and weird and lands somewhere safely in between.
Moreno's economy of gesture recalls a particular lineage of European domestic comedy—Koreeda's influence hovers—where the symbolic weight of small objects carries the whole emotional architecture; the film's formal restraint and tonal control suggest a filmmaker aware of what precedes her.
The decision to make the lost corkscrew the actual hinge of a relationship rather than a mere plot device, and to sustain that commitment through the full ten minutes without winking at the audience, is what transforms this from a sketch into something genuinely unsettling and real.