Bella (LionsGate)The Audience Award winner at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, Bella is proof that even supposedly sophisticated film festival audiences are duped by shameless, manipulative, heart-tugging melodramas. Tying the death of an innocent child with the fate of an unborn baby, writer-director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde knows how to tug on the heartstrings, which he does ever more blatantly until the feel-good, lump-in-the-throat climax. As the woman deciding whether to keep her baby, Tammy Blanchard gives an enormously sympathetic performance that seems out of place in Monteverde’s sappy world.
EXTRAS: Behind-the-scenes featurette; distribution featurette; music video.
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