- Directed by
- Nadine Labaki
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 96 min
- Country
- Lebanon · France
- Language
- Arabic · French
- Music
- Khaled Mouzanar
- Starring
- Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Adel Karam
In a small beauty salon in Beirut, Layale is in love with a married man, Nisrine is about to get married with a secret, Rima falls for a client, Jamale refuses to get older, and Rose, the seamstress next door, has given up on herself.
Between appointments, hot sugar wax and gossip, the salon becomes the one place where they tell the truth.
why this one.
It's Nadine Labaki's first film, before Capernaum, and it shows Beirut through its women, with humour and tenderness. The salon is a majlis: exactly the kind of room this club wants to be.
The caramel
The film's title is the sugar paste the women heat and use for waxing. Sweet, burning, a little painful. Labaki builds the whole film on that image.
the fun fact.
Caramel was Nadine Labaki's debut as a director; she also plays Layale. It premiered at Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight in 2007 and was shot in Beirut.
