La Cocina
La cocina
Get back to work.
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $770,000
- Production
- Filmadora, Fifth Season, Astrakan Film AB, Seine Pictures, Panorama Global, Saltalaliebre, Eficine, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
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Cast
Raúl Briones
Pedro
Rooney Mara
Julia
Anna Díaz
Estela
Motell Gyn Foster
Nonzo
Laura Gómez
Laura
Oded Fehr
Rashid
James Waterston
Mark
Lee Sellars
Chef
Eduardo Olmos
Luis
Spenser Granese
Max
Bernardo Velasco
Soundos Mosbah
Samira
Esteban Caicedo
Nebli Basani
José Luis Pérez
Shavanna Calder
Inez
John Pyper-Ferguson
Vago
Roberto Oropeza
Papá de Pedro
Leo James Davis
Abe
Kerry Ardra
Crew
- Director
- Alonso Ruizpalacios
- Writers
- Arnold Wesker,Alonso Ruizpalacios
- Producers
- Ivan Orlić,Gerardo Gatica,Ramiro Ruiz,Lauren Mann
- Cinematography
- Juan Pablo Ramírez
- Composer
- Tomás Barreiro
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CinemaSerf
March 29, 2025
If you saw “Boiling Point” (2021) then you’ll get the gist of this drama set in an hectic New York restaurant kitchen. “The Grill” might look peaceful to the customers, but it’s kitchen is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and attitudinal melting pot of cooks, waitresses and cleaners under the guidance of a no-nonsense chef (Lee Sellars) and a slimy manager “Luis” (Eduardo Olmos). It’s this latter man who finds there’s a problem one morning when his boss reports that $800-odd is missing from one o…
badelf
November 7, 2025
La Cocina: Society in a Pressure Cooker Not every film needs to be an Aesop's fable, and "La Cocina" understands this perfectly. Alonso Ruizpalacios has crafted an impressive slice-of-life film that elevates the genre by compressing time, making everything that can happen in a restaurant kitchen visible within 139 minutes. That alone is worth the price of admission. What makes the film remarkable is how successfully it offers a bird's eye view of society itself. The kitchen becomes a perfe…