The Kitchen is a 2023 British science fiction drama film directed by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya from a screenplay from Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh.
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- The Kitchen is a 2023 British science fiction drama film.
- It was directed by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya.
- Kibwe Tavares’s directorial debut.
- The screenplay was from Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh.
- The film stars Kane Robinson, Jedaiah Bannerman, Hope Ikpoku Jr, Teija Kabs, Demmy Ladipo, Cristale, and BackRoad Gee.
- The Kitchen had its world premiere at the 67th BFI London Film Festival on October 15, 2023.
- It was released in select cinemas in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2024.
- It then had its streaming debut by Netflix on 19 January 2024.
- The real Lord Kitchener was Irish born Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the 1st Earl Kitchener (24th of June 1850 – 5th of June 1916) who had a vast and varied military career, whose face was used in the British World War 1 1914 poster campaign.
- This is the famous poster of an head-shot of an army officer, with prominent moustache, pointing at the reader and quoting “Britons: Lord Kitchener Wants You. Join Your Country’s Army! God save the King.”.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 45 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10.
- The website’s consensus reads: “Smart sci-fi that’s solidly grounded in social commentary, The Kitchen suggests a bright future for the directing duo of Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating “generally favorable” reviews.
- The Kitchen is the feature-length directorial debut of both Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya. Tavares, Kaluuya.
- Producer Daniel Emmerson began developing the film in 2014.
- He initiated the development of the movie after a conversation in a barbershop.
- In 2016, the film was selected for Sundance’s Screenwriting and Directing Lab.
- Production on the film took place from March to June 2022.
- The film was shot entirely on location, in London at the old London Electricity Board Building on Cambridge Heath Road.
- It was also shot in Paris.
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