Rooney Mara Gets Wrapped Up With a Mexican Chef in ‘La Cocina’ (Exclusive Poster First Look)

Double Oscar-nominee Rooney Mara is all wrapped up, literally, with her co-star Raúl Briones in her new film, La Cocina. In it, the English-language debut of Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios (A Cop Movie, Museo), Mara plays Julia, an American waitress working the high-stress lunch rush in the Manhattan restaurant The Grill, whose relationship with undocumented Mexican grill cook Pedro (Briones) is about to be put to the test.

The official posters for the film, exclusively revealed to The Hollywood Reporter, show the Women Talking and Girl With the Dragon Tattoo actress back-to-back with Briones, bound together by a seemingly unending ticker tape of lunch orders. In the bottom corner, a loose lobster appears to be making a break for freedom.

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A second poster shows Mara cleaning the glass of the lobster tank while Briones looks on. Submerged inside the tank is a mini Statute of Liberty, symbolic of the (broken?) promise of the American dream for migrant workers like Pedro.

Adapted from Arnold Wesker’s 1957 stage classic The Kitchen, La Cocina will have its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, Feb. 16. HanWay Films, Fifth Season and WME International are handling worldwide sales.

Check out the La Cocina posters below.

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