墨西哥導演阿加多·蒙特沃德執導的浪漫愛情片《貝拉》，可謂多倫多電影節的一匹黑馬，出人意料拿下了電影節大獎——“人民選擇獎”。《貝拉》的故事背景發生在紐約，講述了兩個人的生活如何在一天之內完全發生改。電影節開幕前便引發人們極大爭議的《總統之死》，則獲得由國際影評人評選的“影評人大獎”。評委會表示，這部講述布什總統遭暗殺的虛構紀錄片“是一次大膽的創新，情節雖然是虛構的，但所揭示的主題卻是真實存在的”。“人民選擇獎”一貫被電影人視為奧斯卡提名的風向標，以往的幸運兒包括摘得最佳影片獎的《美國麗人》和《烈火戰車》；獲得2005年最佳外語片獎的《黑幫暴徒》。 相關鏈接：“布什遇刺身亡”亮相多倫多

Alejandro Monteverde of the film "Bella" poses for portraits in the Chanel Celebrity Suite at the Four Season hotel during the Toronto International Film Festival, 10 September 2006 in Toronto, Canada. Mexican-born director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's romantic drama "Bella" has won the Toronto film festival's top prize awarded by audiences, but critics picked "Death of a President."  The film about two individuals whose lives converge and turn upside down on a single day in New York City is Monteverde's first feature film. "I really hope that this is not a dream and that I don't wake up at film school," said Monteverde Saturday. "This festival is my first festival. It's my first film. It's my first everything." The film follows cook Jose, played by Eduardo Verastegui, on a tour of New York City with a striking, but distraught waitress (Tammy Blanchard) whom he barely knows, but tries to comfort and begs to know after she is fired from his brother's (Manny Perez) restaurant. Previously, "American Beauty" and "Chariots of Fire" won Oscars for best picture after Toronto audiences gave them a nod. Last year's People's Choice Award winner "Tsotsi" went on to win an Oscar for best foreign-language film. "Death of a President" about a fictional assassination of US President George W. Bush, despite poor reviews, won the Prize of International Critics "for the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth," the jury said in a statement. British director Gabriel Range's cautionary tale told in documentary style about an October 2007 assassination of Bush in Chicago amid Iraq war protests mixes archival footage with narrative elements to explore the loss of civil liberties, the ramifications of war and the manipulation of mass media. The film has already sparked controversy in the United States about the US president's world view, fed mostly by Bush's detractors, and others who deemed it inappropriate to bespeak the death of a living person, especially a US president. (Agencies)

Vocabulary:

Bella: 浪漫愛情片《貝拉》,《貝拉》的故事背景發生在紐約，講述兩個人的生活如何在一天之內完全發生改變。 audacity: 大膽，創新 ramifications: 后果 detractor: 誹謗、惡意批評 （英語點津陳蓓編輯）