La Cocina

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.

Keywords

  • Berlinale
  • Best sequence-shots
  • Deauville Film Festival
  • Cinema noir & blanc
  • New York, New York
  • Romance
  • black and white

Actors

  • Raúl Briones
  • Rooney Mara
  • Anna Díaz
  • Motell Gyn Foster
  • Laura Gómez

Director

  • Alonso Ruizpalacios

Drama, Comedy


2h 19min


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Mexico
United States of America
Sweden
2024
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.

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.


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