Toronto International Film Festival

"TORONTO -- The set-up is hardly new -- a beauty salon as nexus of female social life -- but it feels fresh in Caramel, a relaxed comedy from first-time filmmaker Nadine Labaki. Warm-hearted and accessible..."

Lebanon 2007 | Run Time: 96 min. Rated PG | Genre: Comedy/Drama

DIRECTOR: Nadine Labaki

FILM SYNOPSIS

Layale loves Rabih, but Rabih is married.

Nisrine is Muslim and her forthcoming marriage poses a problem: she is no longer a virgin.

Rima is tormented by her attraction to women and especially to this lovely client with long hair.

Jamale is refusing to grow old.

Rose has sacrificed her life to take care of her elderly sister.

In the salon, these women’s intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel.

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“… Caramel has the tact and sophistication not to tie things up too tidily for any of its women. Possibilities appear for some but not all of them, and it is not at all a sure thing that any of those possibilities will pan out. All these characters can count on, finally, is that they will be there for one another. The bonds between women, ‘Caramel’ says, are the ones that matter, the ones that last.” -- Kenneth Turan, LA Times

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