2006 · drama · romance · sports
Bella
Directed by Alejandro Monteverde1h 31m2006
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down.
Our read: Bella (2006) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · romance · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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