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.
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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