La Cocina
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“Where is the god damn food?”
Overview
It’s the lunch rush at The Grill in Manhattan, and money has disappeared from the till. Despite promises from the owner to help with his immigration papers, chef Pedro (Raúl Briones) and all the other undocumented cooks are being investigated as prime suspects. Meanwhile Pedro has come up with some money to solve a ‘problem’ he’s run into with Julia (Rooney Mara), the American waitress he’s fallen head over heels for. As tension rises, plates spin and revelations spill, an onslaught of orders and internal chaos threaten to implode one of the city’s busiest kitchens.
“A singular masterwork”
“A chaotic symphony... mixes biting social critique with stylistic bravura”
“LikeThe Bear on steroids... a black-and-white pressure cooker that builds to a fierce and explosive finale”
Why You Should See This Film
Loosely adapting Arnold Wesker’s 1957 stage play The Kitchen, Alonso Ruizpalacios (Güeros, Museum, A Cop Movie) has orchestrated a tantalisingly tense diorama of culinary chaos that uses the power dynamics within the busy New York kitchen as a stage to examine and critique the treatment of migrant workers in the United States. An exhilarating escalation of falling dominoes and ‘how can this situation get any worse’ moments held together by Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara, this is a must for enjoyers of kitchen nightmares like The Bear and Philip Barantini’s Boiling Point.
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