Life, or Something Like It
Today on Tablet
April 01, 2011
Liel Leibovitz comes today in Tablet Magazine to praise Julian Schnabel’s controversial new film Miral, not to bury it. Swerving from the teaching in this week’s parasha, he loves the fact that, both aesthetically and substantively, Miral does not seek to avoid impurity but rather freely strives to exhibit only parts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than the whole; that depicts “life drenched in blood, sweat, and tears, life in bits and pieces, life that sometimes burns bright and is sometimes too dim to see, that is to say, life as we all live it.”
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
