Miral

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  • Opened March 25, 2011 (Limited 3/25)
  • 1 hr 52 min
  • PG-13 | Some violent content including a sexual assualt

  • From Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes MIRAL, the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and war in every corner of her life. Schnabel pieces together momentary fragments of Miral’s world – how she was formed, who influenced her, all that she experiences in her tumultuous early years – to create a raw, moving, poetic portrait of a woman whose small, personal story is inextricably woven into the bigger history unfolding all around her. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Willem Dafoe
  • Director: Julian Schnabel
  • Genres: Drama

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Confused? So is Miral, a film that makes bits and pieces of the Palestinian experience come alive without assembling them into a coherent vision. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

Miral feels like gastric bypass moviemaking. It's a miniseries awkwardly stuffed in the body of a two-hour drama about the Palestinians' long struggle against the Israelis. Read full review

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USA Today
| Claudia Puig

Bogged down by speechifying and a plodding pace, Miral is well-intentioned but doesn't achieve the searing emotional resonance suggested by the story. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Joe Neumaier

Any film as politically specific as Miral needs to be addressed on two levels, as a movie and as, from a certain viewpoint, a polemic. If a viewer can separate one from the other - and some may not - there's an intense, novelistic drama here. Read full review

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Freida Pinto as Miral in "Miral."