Lebanese Cinema

Caramel (Sukkar Banat) - Nadine Labaki

Lebanon director Labaki’s first appearance film Caramel is a sticky-sweet serving of women who work in and wander around a quaintly colorful beauty salon, set in the capital of the Lebanon Republic. The dazzling debut director (who plays the role of Layale, the salon owner herself) shows an appetizing mishmash of women who tread along and seek for themselves in their subtle ways, a life of happiness, love and security. Five women who slickly run their glossy salon, eagerly preoccupied with their lurking lovers…