Miral: Film Review. Freida Pinto stars in director Julian Schnabel's dramatic but uneven exploration of the lives of four Palestinian women during the years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

"Miral" is based on an autobiographical novel by Rula Jebreal. If you want to worry about bias in the presentation, don't focus on the filmmaker's political opinions as much as the fact that ...

Artist Julian Schnabel’s new film, Miral, about generations of suffering among Palestinian women, gives a history lesson that not everyone wants to hear. Plus, Schnabel and Harvey Weinstein on ...

“Miral” is dedicated “to everyone on both sides who still believe peace is possible.” Yet the Israelis depicted onscreen — soldiers bulldozing homes and countering rock-throwing with ...

Movie Reviews - 'Miral' - For Schnabel, A Muse Run Amok In Israel The artist-filmmaker looks at the modern Middle East conflict through the eyes of three generations of Palestinian women.

Miral is not a documentary or a polemic; it is a window into the lives of Palestinians, whose voices have gone unheard in the United States for far too long.

Host Scott Simon talks with artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel about his new movie, Miral. The drama is centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl, who grows up in the wake of the first Arab ...