TORagoste in Manhattan
Type: gastronomic-anthropological cross-section
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios. With Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, James Waterston, Anna Díaz, Motel Gyn Foster, Laura Gómez, Eduardo Olmos
Don’t be misleading from the Italian title: the original (Cocina) immediately reveals the debt with Arnold Wesker’s piece of homonymous (in Italy we remember the beautiful staging of Valerio Binasco).
If the original was set in London, the Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios (formerly silver bear 2018 for the script of Museum – Folle robbery in Mexico City) The door to The Grill, a restaurant for tourists in the heart of Manhattan.
Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones in the film “Aragoste in Manhattan”
Looking for staff, the smart rashid opens its doors to immigrants, including irregular onesventuring the promise of remedying the situation with the immigration office.
In this way The film ends up telling above all the many faces of pre-trump America Where the races intertwined but struggled to understand each other, starting with the hopes of the “gring” Julia and the Mexican Pedro, to whom the physical attraction to walk together is not enough.
As The linguistic confusion that you breathe becomes a stream of jokes, quarrels, screams (The scene where everyone is taught the insults in their respective languages), sequence plans and photographic prowess, putting an energy that ends up seducing and capturing are splendid.
For those who want to dive into the many ethnic souls of the United States.
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