Miral

Is this the face of a terrorist?


Miral
Miral is the story of four women whose lives intertwine in the starkly human search for justice, hope and reconciliation amid a world overshadowed by conflict, rage and war. It begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when a young girl arrived at an orphanage. Now seventeen, she is assigned to teack at a refugee camp just as the Palestinians begin armed resistance. She gets romantically involved with an activist, leading her to ponder which road to follow: armed resistance or education for peace.

110 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Violence, Prejudice).
Drama, On the art circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

We all lived in a yellow submarine...
We all lived in a yellow submarine...

Credits

Cast
Hiam Abbasss, Freida Pinto, Yasmine Al Massri, Ruba Blal, Alexander Siddig, Omar Metwally, Stella Schnabel, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave
Director
Julian Schnabel
ScreenplayRula Jebreal, from her novel
CinematographyEric Gautier
EditingJulietter Welfling
Sound formatsDolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in2010
Produced byPathé Eran Riklis Productions, Eagle Pictures, India Take One Productions, Canal+, CinéCinéma

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

GenreDrama
LanguageMild to moderate, infrequent, in context
NudityNone
SexNone
ViolenceFairly strong realistic violence, brief blood and war injury, gore, strong, implied, disturbing rape scene, brief in context
PrejudiceSome sustained historical and contemporary racial prejudice, Jewish and Arabic, integral to the development of the plot and theme
BlasphemyNone
Drug abuseBrief smoking, alcohol, infrequent
CommentsNone
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Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Cape Argus / The Star
Diane de Beer quote iconMiral, Miral in film halls, not fairest of them all
5
Die Burger
Laetitia Pople
10
Cape Times
Christy Lemire quote iconTale of Palestinian women misses mark
10
The Citizen
Peter Feldman
14
eye Weekly
Jason Anderson quote iconIt’s a tough call as to what’s the worst thing about this woeful misfire by Schnabel, which has all of the bombastic tendencies of the artist’s features to date but little of the intelligence or panache.
5
Metacritic.com
18 critics
9
Rottentomatoes critics
54 critics
9
Rottentomatoes tomatometer
Tomatometer
3

What the People say

Internet
787 Netizens quote iconAnother great achievement for Julian Schnabel
12

Average .. 43%

9

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