{"id":6139,"date":"2025-02-02T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T10:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2025-02-02T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T10:50:21","slug":"la-cocina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/la-cocina\/","title":{"rendered":"La Cocina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Cocina Trailer #1 (2024)\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mG2IH3Op5YY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>La Cocina<\/em> captures the frenetic energy of the lunch rush at The Grill, a bustling restaurant in Manhattan&#8217;s Times Square. <\/p>\n<p>When money goes missing from the till, suspicion falls on Pedro (Ra\u00fal Briones), an undocumented cook who dreams of a better life and is in love with Julia (Rooney Mara), an American waitress who cannot commit to a relationship. <\/p>\n<p>Rashid, the restaurant owner, has promised to help Pedro obtain legal status, but a shocking revelation about Julia compels Pedro to spiral into an act that threatens to shut down one of the city&#8217;s busiest kitchens once and for all. <\/p>\n<p>The film is a comic and tragic tribute to the invisible people who keep our restaurants running and our stomachs full, all while chasing an elusive version of the American dream.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios updates Arnold Wesker\u2019s 1957 play, <em>The Kitchen<\/em> to a contemporary New York restaurant in a drama that\u2019s as thematically blunt as it is exhilaratingly theatrical in its critique of contemporary America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Drama, Romance, Thriller<br \/>\nMexico, United States (English, Spanish, French, Arabic)<br \/>\n2h 19min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cocina2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6140\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Cocina captures the frenetic energy of the lunch rush at The Grill, a bustling restaurant in Manhattan&#8217;s Times Square.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cocina2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}