An international trailer The Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schnabel‘s Miral has popped up on Awards Daily. The drama stars Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), Willem Dafoe (Antichrist), Hiam Abbass (The Limits of Control), and Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement). Check it out below.
Plot: Based on the novel by Rula Jebreal (who also penned the screenplay), the movie revolves around a real-life orphanage established by a Palestinian woman (Abbass) following the 1948 creation of the Israeli state. (Pinto) was sent to the orphanage in 1978. When, later in life, she goes to teach at a refugee camp and falls for an activist, Miral is torn between resistance and education as separate paths to political change.
The fantastic cinematographer Eric Gautier (Into The Wild, Summer Hours, Wild Grass, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) is behind this one. I loved Diving Bell and the Butterfly so this is one of my most anticipated films this year.
Miral will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this September and the Weinstein Company will release it domestically later this year.
Did you love Diving Bell? Will you check out Miral?