document: & lsquo ; Miral & rsquo ; : Director has conflict of interest `` Miral '' Rated PG - 13 . At Kendall Square Cinema : C + Painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel -LRB- Oscar-nominated for his exquisite `` The Diving Bell and the Butterfly '' -RRB- has built a terrific second career from filmed biographies -LRB- also in-cluding `` Before Night Falls '' and `` Basquiat '' -RRB- that deal with people confined by circumstance yearning to break free . I 'd love to report that his fourth film , `` Miral , '' continues the upward trend , but the screenplay by Schnabel 's girlfriend , Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal -LRB- based on her semiautobiographical novel -RRB- , contains too many earnest platitudes in its one-sided look at four women 's intertwining lives during the first intifada of the 1980s . -LRB- Some musical choices , such as Tom Waits ' `` All the World Is Green '' playing over a climactic funeral , also stand out in a bad way . -RRB- Miral -LRB- Freida Pinto , `` Slumdog Millionaire '' -RRB- , the young Arab woman growing up in Jerusalem during this period , does n't enter the picture immediately , and when she does , she does n't have much to say -- at first . -LRB- A bit of a good thing , because Pinto 's Indian-accented English does n't quite jibe with the Arabic-tinged tongues of her co-stars . -RRB- Beginning in war-torn Jerusalem circa 1948 , when `` Mama '' Hind Husseini -LRB- Hiam Abbass , `` The Visitor '' -RRB- established an orphanage for refugees that quickly becomes home to 2,000 , the movie spans the next 50 years , and though Schnabel 's artist 's eye is on display , the Israel / Palestine conflict is a subject that he never brings into clear focus -- at least with regard to Israelis . And when he presents what some would believe terrorist actions of his protagonists , he sidesteps the potentially horrible consequences : a disgraced former nurse -- a lifesaver -- plants a bomb in a crowded movie theater -LRB- playing , without a hint of subtlety , Roman Polanski 's `` Repulsion '' -RRB- but the device fails to explode ; a car bomb is set off by Miral 's political activist boyfriend -- though there are seemingly no casualties . So much for the horrors of war . -LRB- `` Miral '' contains anger-inducing violent themes , particularly for those sympathetic to Israel . -RRB-
doc_bio_tags: O O O B O O O O B O B I I O B O O O O O O O B I I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B O O O O O B I O O O B O O O O B I I O O O B O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B I O O O B I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B O O O O O B I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B I O O O O O O O O B I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O B O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
extractive_keyphrases: conflict of interest arabictinged tongues slumdog millionaire kendall square cinema before night falls earnest platitudes basquiat biographies jerusalem circa butterfly musical choices terrific second tom waits miral director conflict
abstractive_keyphrases: lsquomiralrsquo director mama hind husseini miral rated pg 13 painterturneddirector julian schnabel oscarnominated schnabels girlfriend palestinian journalist rula jebreal exquisite the diving bell interest