Truly Bella
Two young Latino men in a souped-up car, laughing and preening about their good looks and nice clothes ... what do we expect to see next? A drug deal? A sexy woman pushed around by macho men? Maybe a hail of gunfire and spurts of blood on the nice upholstery?Bella (2006) steps into none of these cliches. Instead, it drives that flashy car right into a real-life tragedy followed by a beautifully drawn process of real-life redemption. The debut film of Mexican director Alejandro Monteverde and starring another young Mexican, Eduardo Verastegui, Bella deftly weaves together the fates of a lonely young waitress (Tammy Blanchard) unable to imagine any outcome to her unwanted pregnancy but abortion, and her co-worker (Verastegui) who tries, for reasons of his own, to expand the range of her imagining.
July 12, 2009 7:57 PM
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