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La Cocina

Summary It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned. Most of them are illegal immigrants and they struggle to defend their job, their only rightful place in the world, as they prepare...

Directed By: Alonso Ruizpalacios

Written By: Arnold Wesker, Alonso Ruizpalacios

  • Arthouse Traffic
  • 2 h 19 m
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  • 2 h 19 m

La Cocina

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
75
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Summary It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned. Most of them are illegal immigrants and they struggle to defend their job, their only rightful place in the world, as they prepare...

Directed By: Alonso Ruizpalacios

Written By: Arnold Wesker, Alonso Ruizpalacios

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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91
Feb 18, 2024
Briones and Mara are perfect dance partners in this waltz between reality and possibility, stark opposites and doomed lovers united by a hope they know to be foolish.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 19, 2024
A chaotic symphony of nearly two dozen characters, this black-and-white indie confection (garnished with sparing touches of color) mixes biting social critique with stylistic bravura.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 19, 2024
Even if the film ultimately strays too far into virtuosic theatricality, betraying its origins, La Cocina is a gripping reflection on the dehumanizing grind of labor and the ways that its soul-crushing routines stifle hope. Even if he takes too long wrapping up an overwrought climactic crescendo, this is a compelling vision of the immigrant experience as a hellish limbo in which even the seeming ballast of community, brotherhood and love can be illusory.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 18, 2024
While La Cocina can’t always shake the polemical stiffness of its source material or the political chokehold of its modernized setting, the film’s agit-prop expressionism allows it to push beyond the boundaries of other stories like it.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 18, 2024
Ruizpalacios’ film has style to burn but little interest in subtlety, and even the most high-grade hammers can lose their sheen after 139 minutes of hammering.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 19, 2024
We never shake off the feeling we’re watching a filmed play, one whose dramatic crescendos and lulls are relentlessly stagey and stylised.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Astrakan Film AB, Fifth Season, Filmadora, Panorama Global, Seine Pictures
Duration 2 h 19 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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