La Cocina

La Cocina (2024)

La cocina

Get back to work.

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.

Date of release
2024-10-25
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (110)
Runtime
2h 19m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Alonso Ruizpalacios

Casting

Interesting facts

La cocina is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios. The film elaborates on the theme and style of Ruizpalacios' early short Café Paraíso (2008) and is based on the 1957 stage play The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker, which was already adapted to the 1961 film The Kitchen. However, while in the play and the British film the kitchen staff were continental European immigrants, in the present film they are mostly Latin Americans with some Arabs. The film stars Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Soundos Mosbah, Anna Díaz, Motell Foster, Oded Fehr, Eduardo Olmos and Spenser Granese.

Production

In April 2022, it was announced Rooney Mara had joined the cast of the film, with Alonso Ruizpalacios directing from a screenplay he wrote.

Principal photography took place in Mexico City.

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