Caramel (سكر بنات Sukkar banat‎) 2007 Re-post

Avec Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Sihame Haddad, Joanna Mkarzel, Aziza Semaan, Gisele Aouad, Ismael Antar, Adel Karam, Fadia Stella, Siham Fatmeh Safa ..

A Beyrouth, cinq femmes se croisent régulièrement dans un institut de beauté, microcosme coloré où plusieurs générations se rencontrent, se parlent et se confient. Layale est la maîtresse d'un homme marié. Elle espère encore qu'il va quitter sa femme. Nisrine est musulmane et va bientôt se marier. Mais elle n'est plus vierge et s'inquiète de la réaction de son fiancé. Rima est tourmentée par son attirance pour les femmes, en particulier cette cliente qui revient souvent se faire coiffer. Jamale est obsédée par son âge et son physique. Rose a sacrifié sa vie pour s'occuper de sa soeur âgée. Au salon, les hommes, le sexe et la maternité sont au coeur de leurs conversations intimes et libérées.

Warm and sweet, this Lebanese film lives up to its titular substance without ever being too sugary. Actress Nadine Labaki cowrote and directed CARAMEL, an ensemble comedy set in and around a Beirut… Warm and sweet, this Lebanese film lives up to its titular substance without ever being too sugary. Actress Nadine Labaki cowrote and directed CARAMEL, an ensemble comedy set in and around a Beirut beauty salon. Labaki also stars as Layale, a beautician torn by her secret affair with a married man who beckons her with his car horn. Her coworker Nisrine (Yasmine Al Masri) is about to get married, but she withholds a secret from her fianc? and hides her modern looks from his family. Meanwhile, shampooist Rima (Joanna Moukarzel) lusts after a female customer and her lush locks. Client and aging actress Jamal (Gisele Aouad) makes frequent visits to the salon to measure up to her much younger competition, but her efforts don't seem to be helping her career.