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Tomorrow – Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival: La Cocina

Join us tomorrow for a screening of La Cocina by Alonso Ruizpalacios, part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival!

Wednesday, September 24th at 6:30 p.m. in the College of Liberal Arts, room 1201. Spanish and English subtitles will be provided.

Renowned director Alonso Ruizpalacios sets the action of this film in the microcosm of a New York restaurant kitchen, which serves as a synecdoche for the broader structures that govern social dynamics and relationships in the United States. This confined space allows Ruizpalacios to explore the tensions that define American society: class divisions, social barriers, structural racism, labor precarity, immigrant alienation… but most of all, the dividing line between those who cook and those who serve or consume, which highlights systemic inequalities and contradictions. This line also separates the film’s protagonists: Pedro, an undocumented immigrant, and Julia, an American waitress, whose lives intersect through moments of passion, betrayal, and revelation.

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This post was written by Batchelor, Melanie E.