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{{Infobox film
| name = Miral
| image = Miralfilmposter.jpg
| caption = French film poster
| producer = Jon Kilik François-Xavier Decraene Sonia Raule [[Pathé#Jérôme Seydoux|Jérôme Seydoux]]
| director = [[Julian Schnabel]]
| screenplay = [[Rula Jebreal]]
| based_on = ''Miral'' by Rula Jebreal
| starring = [[Hiam Abbass]] [[Freida Pinto]] [[Yasmine Al Masri]] Ruba Jebreal [[Alexander Siddig]] [[Omar Metwally]] [[Stella Schnabel]] [[Willem Dafoe]] [[Vanessa Redgrave]] [[Shredy Jabarin]]
| music = Olivier Daviaud
| cinematography = [[Éric Gautier]]
| editing = [[Juliette Welfling]]
| studio = [[Pathé]] [[The Weinstein Company]] ER Productions [[Canal+]] [[CinéCinéma Classic|CinéCinéma]] Eagle Pictures India Take One Productions
| distributor = Pathé (France) Eagle Pictures (Italy)<ref>{{cite web|title=Miral|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4225468161/weekend/}}</ref> The Weinstein Company (United States)
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2010|9|15|France}}
| runtime = 112 minutes
| country = France India Israel Italy Palestine United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $900,647
}}
'''''Miral''''' is a 2010 [[biographical film|biographical]] [[political film]] directed by [[Julian Schnabel]] about the coming of age of a Palestinian girl named Miral who grows up in the wake of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]] and finds herself drawn into the conflict. The screenplay was written by [[Rula Jebreal]], based on her novel of the same name. The film was released on 3 September at the [[67th Venice International Film Festival|2010 Venice Film Festival]]<ref name="venezia67">{{cite web
| url= http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/off-sel/venezia67/miral.html
| title= Venezia 67 - Miral - Julian Schnabel
| website= www-labiennale.org
| date= 11 September 2010
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160327090910/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/archive/67th-festival/lineup/off-sel/venezia67/miral.html
| archive-date= 27 March 2016
| url-status= dead
| accessdate= 3 July 2016
}}</ref> and on 15 September 2010 in France. The film was set for release on 3 December 2010 in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1818-miral/ |title=Miral | UK Cinema Release Date |publisher=Filmdates.co.uk |accessdate=2010-10-20}}</ref>{{Update after|2010|12|04}} and on 25 March 2011 in the United States.<ref>{{cite web
| url= http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/miral
| title= Miral (2011)
| website= www.RopeOfSilicon.com
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140811102326/http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/miral/
| archive-date= 11 August 2014
| url-status= dead
| accessdate= 3 July 2016}}</ref> ''Miral'' was initially rated R by the [[Motion Picture Association of America|MPAA]] for "some violent content including a sexual assault." Later, however, it was reclassified to PG-13 for "thematic material, and some violent content including a sexual assault" after an appeal of the R rating by the [[The Weinstein Company|Weinstein Company]].<ref>[https://www.deadline.com/2011/03/mpaa-gives-miral-a-pg-13-rating-after-appeal/ "MPAA Gives 'Miral' A PG-13 Rating After Appeal"] from Deadline.com (10 March 2011)</ref>

On 4 April 2011, days after the film's US release, [[Juliano Mer-Khamis]], an actor and peace activist who plays Seikh Saabah in the film, was shot to death in his car outside a theatre he had established in a Palestinian refugee camp.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/miral_murder_X6IGObHCY6PRb8a40A53HJ | work=New York Post | title='Miral' murder | date=5 April 2011}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film begins with a chronicle of [[Hind Husseini]]'s effort to establish an [[orphanage]] in [[Jerusalem]] after the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], the [[Deir Yassin Massacre]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3949069,00.html |title=Jewish filmmaker tells Palestinian story - Israel Culture, Ynetnews |publisher=Ynetnews.com |date=1995-06-20 |accessdate=2011-03-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| date= 8 October 2010
| url= http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/jewish-film-maker-directs-palestinian-story-in-miral-1.317857
| title= Jewish Film Maker Directs Palestinian Story in 'Miral'
| website= www.haaretz.com
| publisher= The Associated Press
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160409070509/http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/jewish-film-maker-directs-palestinian-story-in-miral-1.317857
| archive-date = 9 April 2016
| url-status = live
| accessdate= 3 July 2016}}</ref> and the establishment of the state of [[Israel]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} In Jerusalem in 1948, on her way to work, Hind Husseini ([[Hiam Abbass]]) comes across 55 orphaned children in the street. She takes them home to give them food and shelter. Within six months, the number of children grows to almost 2,000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute is born.

Miral ([[Freida Pinto]]) is sent to the Institute by her father in 1978, at the age of 5 following her mother's death. Brought up safely inside the Institute's walls, she is naïve to the troubles that surround her. Then, at the age of 15, she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the reality of the Palestinian refugees. When she falls for Hani, a militant, she finds herself torn between the [[First Intifada]] of her people and Mama Hind's belief that education is the road to peace.

==Cast==
* [[Hiam Abbass]] as [[Hind al-Husseini]]
* [[Freida Pinto]] as Miral
* [[Yasmine Al Masri]] as Nadia
* Ruba Blal as Fatima
* [[Alexander Siddig]] as Jamal
* [[Omar Metwally]] as Hani
* [[Willem Dafoe]] as Eddie
* [[Vanessa Redgrave]] as Bertha Spafford
* [[Stella Schnabel]] as Lisa
* [[Makram Khoury]] as Khatib
* Zidane Awad As Miras
* Doraid Liddawi as Sameer
* [[Shredy Jabarin]] as Ali
* [[Juliano Mer-Khamis]] as Sheikh Saabah

==Background==
The Palestinian girl is author [[Rula Jebreal]]. Her novel on which the movie is based is a strongly [[autobiographical]] account of her youth in [[West Bank]]. She's torn between the injustice she sees at the hands of the [[Israeli army]] during the [[First Intifada]] and a desire for peace.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/980-julian-schnabel-s-controversal-movie?nc |title=Archived copy |access-date=25 March 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707151536/http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/980-julian-schnabel-s-controversal-movie?nc |archive-date=7 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Schnabel revealed that the project had relevance for his own family history, figuring that he was a pretty good person to tell the other side of the story, given his background, as an American Jew whose mother was president, in 1948, of the Brooklyn chapter of [[Hadassah]] the Women's Zionist Organisation of America.<ref>Deborah Sontag, [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/movies/julian-schnabel-discusses-his-new-movie-a-palestinian-story.html Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story], ''[[New York Times]]'', 22 March 2011</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/02/venice-film-middle-east-julian-schnabel Jewish director Julian Schnabel brings Palestine to Venice], ''[[The Guardian]]''. 2 September 2010</ref>

==Reception==
===Critics===
''Miral'' received negative reviews from critics. On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 17%, based on 64 reviews, and an average rating of 4.4/10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miral |title=Miral (2011) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango (company)|Fandango Media]] |accessdate=14 May 2018}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/miral |title=Miral Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |accessdate=14 May 2018}}</ref>

[[Kelly Vance]] wrote that "Pinto handles the central role with a certain dignity, but the real drama is in Miral’s rejection of violence in favor of Hind Husseini’s (Abbass) example of education and negotiation".<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/miral/Film?oid=2532088 | title= Miral | date= 2011 | website= www.eastbayexpress.com | publisher= East Bay Express | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150725071937/http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/miral/Film?oid=2532088 | archive-date= 25 July 2015 | url-status= live | access-date= 3 July 2016 | quote=but the real drama is in Miral’s rejection of violence in favor of Hind Husseini’s (Abbass) example of education and negotiation}}</ref>

Kenneth Morefield opined that "''Miral'' is an ambitious film, and it may be that Schnabel's reputation has led to unrealistic expectations about what any film can (or should attempt to) accomplish. While it falls short of greatness, it has many admirable qualities".<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/movies/reviews/2011/miral.html ''Miral'': A Jewish filmmaker creates a stirring biography ... about a Palestinian], Kenneth R. Morefield, ''[[Christianity Today]]''</ref>

Sheri Linden of ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' writes, "The lack of a compelling lead figure, combined with Schnabel's tentative approach to the material, casts the film's later stretches in the balmy glow of [[soap opera]]."<ref>{{cite news |title=Movie review: 'Miral' |author=Sheri Linden |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-miral-20110325,0,7796515.story |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=25 March 2011 |accessdate=24 March 2011}}</ref> Justin Chang of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' similarly adds, "Schnabel's signature blend of splintered storytelling and sobering humanism feels misapplied to this sweeping multigenerational saga of four Arab women living under Israeli occupation, the youngest of which, Miral, emerges a bland totem of hope rather than a compelling movie subject."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943406?refcatid=31 |title=Miral |author=Justin Chang |date=2 September 2010 |work=Variety |accessdate=24 March 2011}}</ref>

Deborah Young of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' described the film as "a political film with a message of hope, on the obvious side".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/miral-film-review-29927 |title=Miral: Film Review |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2010-10-15 |accessdate=2011-03-25|quote=Also, most of the hard questions are glossed over or touched on ever so lightly: terrorism, the colonies on the West Bank, the Israeli army's wholesale destruction of Palestinian property. Rather than breaking ground, the film feels like a refresher course on the region's historical basics, but this back-to-school approach, which is fairly well done, could help widen the story's appeal even if it loses more sophisticated audiences.}}</ref>

''Miral'' was reviewed by Geoffrey Macnab of ''[[The Independent]]'' as "choppily edited" and "unevenly performed" but also "courageous" and "groundbreaking."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/miral-venice-film-festival-2069079.html |title=Miral, Venice Film Festival - Reviews, Films |newspaper=The Independent |date=2010-09-03 |accessdate=2011-03-25 |location=London |first=Geoffrey |last=MacNab}}</ref>

==Public discussion with filmmakers==
An open public panel discussion about ''Miral'' took place on 30 March 2011 at the Center for Palestine Studies at [[Columbia University]] with film director [[Julian Schnabel]] and [[Palestinian Arabs|Palestinian]] [[journalist]] [[Rula Jebreal]] on whose autobiographical novel the film was based. [[Helga Tawil-Souri|Helga Tawil Souri]], Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication at [[NYU]], and [[Hamid Dabashi]], Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, led and moderated the panel discussion. During the discussion with the moderators, Schnabel and Jebreal discussed the events that led to the film's premiere at the [[UN General Assembly]]. Schnabel described the film as sending a political message in his discussions with UN General Assembly President, Mr. [[Joseph Deiss]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fora.tv/2011/03/30/Miral_Is_This_the_Face_of_a_Terrorist |title=Miral: Is This the Face of a Terrorist? |publisher=FORA.tv |date=2011-03-30 |accessdate=2012-06-08}}</ref>

The premiere at the UN was opposed by the Israeli government and the [[American Jewish Committee]] as it depicted [[Israel]] in a "highly negative light." The Jewish-American director [[Julian Schnabel]] urged AJC members to see the film, as he felt they had misunderstood its intent. "I love the State of [[Israel]]," wrote Schnabel, "I believe in it, and my film is about preserving it, not hurting it … Instead of saying 'no,’ I ask the AJC to say 'yes,’ see Miral and join the discussion." [[Hollywood]] stars [[Sean Penn]], [[Robert De Niro]], [[Steve Buscemi]] and [[Josh Brolin]] attended the premiere.<ref>{{cite news |title=Penn, De Niro Attend U.N. Screening of 'Anti-Israel' Film|author=Nathan Burstein |url=http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/136167/penn-de-niro-attend-un-screening-of-anti-israel-fi/ |newspaper=The Jewish Daily Forward |date=15 March 2011 |accessdate=7 May 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Deir Yassin massacre]]
*[[Israeli Declaration of Independence]]
*[[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|1366409}}
* {{Allmovie title|520063}}
* {{mojo title|miral}}
* [https://www.metacritic.com/movie/miral ''Miral''] at [[Metacritic]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722001345/http://www.pathedistribution.com/accueil/filmavenir.php?IDFilm=1748 ''Miral''] at [[Pathé]]
* {{rotten-tomatoes|miral}}
* [http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=213350 Columnist Ray Hanania on the importance of the film]

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