'La Cocina' Review: Rooney Mara in Intense NYC Restaurant Drama – The Hollywood Reporter
Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones star in 'La Cocina,' Alonso Ruizpalacios' explosive account of immigrant restaurant workers chasing the American Dream.
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Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones star in 'La Cocina,' Alonso Ruizpalacios' explosive account of immigrant restaurant workers chasing the American Dream.
Before demonstrating himself to be one of Mexico’s most original and exciting new filmmaking talents, Alonso Ruizpalacios washed dishes in a bustling big-city kitchen. That experience informs every second of the “Museo” director’s fourth feature, “La Cocina,” a thrilling in-spirit adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play “The Kitchen,” transposed from midcentury London to modern-day New …
Premierng at the Berlin Film Festival, Rooney Mara and Raul Briones star in an intense immigrant drama set in a NYC restaurant kitchen
Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones play a couple struggling to juggle their relationship with the demands of an intense restaurant job.
If “the kitchen as war zone” has become a sub-genre unto itself, Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “La Cocina” is the closest thing it has to its own “Gallipoli.”