Film guide 2007
Caramel
A Beirut beauty salon becomes a meeting place for friendship, desire and difficult choices.
- Original title
- Sukkar Banat
- Director
- Nadine Labaki
- Year
- 2007
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Story, without spoilers
Layale and the women around her salon share confidences while navigating relationships and social expectations. Nisrine is preparing to marry; Rima is drawn to a female customer. Around them, other women confront ageing and family obligations, making the salon a small world of intersecting lives.
Context & recognition
Nadine Labaki's first feature was presented at Directors' Fortnight in 2007. Its ensemble structure gives several women room to express different hopes, with beauty work and intimate conversation providing the setting for their connections.
Main characters & cast
Layale
Nadine Labaki
The salon owner, involved with a married man.
Nisrine
Yasmine Al Massri
A young woman preparing for her wedding.
Rima
Joanna Moukarzel
A stylist attracted to a woman visiting the salon.