Kitchen dramas are all the rage (literally). Angry chefs have graced our screens to critical acclaim in the likes of The Bear and Boiling Point, but new movie La Cocina is perhaps the one of the bleakest recent portrayals of restaurant work.
Directed by Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios and based on British playwright Arnold Wesker's 1957 play The Kitchen, La Cocina takes place almost entirely within the confines of The Grill, a tourist restaurant in Times Square, over the course of one day.
