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Film Review from page 29 why she was late – she had stopped to purchase a pregnancy It is to the film’s credit that it does not “preach” a
test because she was worried, and it turned out positive – Jose solution to the dilemma one way or another. Instead, it is
in director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde’s filmmaking style of decides to try to comfort her and help her decide what to do. only in the last minute that we learn of Nina’s decision,
interchanging flashbacks with the present, we soon realize that The decision that Nina faces is at the heart of the film: whether and understand how Jose has finally come to terms with
something has gone terribly wrong, for in the next scene Jose is to abort a baby whose father she barely knew, or to go through the events of that fateful day many years earlier that had
now heavily bearded and is working as the top chef in his brother, with the pregnancy when she has no money, no job, and would ended his career and so suddenly altered his life.
Manny’s, very upscale Mexican restaurant. surely have to give the baby up for adoption. The subject of Bella won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto
Manny is clearly an uptight, detail-oriented perfectionist, abortion is treated far more intelligently and more sensitively International Film Festival. It also won the Tony Bennett
barking orders to his staff, and on that morning, upset that one here than in the heated context of our current political debates. Media Excellence Award. Tony Bennett called it, “a perfect
of his waitresses, Nina, is late for work. When she finally arrives, It is also a subject that touches Jose more profoundly than film, an artistic masterpiece that will live in people’s hearts
20 minutes late, he gives her no opportunity to explain and fires we at first realize, for reasons that are revealed only much forever.” It broke the record for Latino-themed films in
her on the spot. later. Meanwhile, the film evolves into a warm and deeply total box-office earnings and box-office average per screen
Jose, feeling badly about his brother’s actions and satisfying portrait of the importance of family. Jose invites for films released in 2007, and was the top-rated movie on
embarrassed for the girl, runs after her and, when he learns Nina to his parents’ home for a typical Mexican-American The New York Times Readers’ Poll. The Wall Street Journal
dinner, where she is treated lovingly by his parents, his called it “the fall’s biggest surprise.” Produced for a budget
of $3.3 million, it earned $12,083,296.
younger brother (who has also invited his new girlfriend),
PBCFR Yellow and is even welcomed by Manny, who had fired her earlier. you – and have you thinking about how this film would even be
But forget the number. It is the heart in Bella that will get to
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very easily followed, but important because the film earned
*****
several special awards – including one given at the White

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