Caramel is a beautiful story written and directed and starring the even lovelier Nadine Labaki,who brings an Almodovaresque style tale of life, love and pain to the screen with lots of great female characters. Extracting the image of a war-torn Beirut, like the caramel used in the film for epilation, you’re drawn into their lives through the usually hidden setting of a ladies beauty parlour in Beirut.
Pic: ᔥ Slant Magazine
A Lebanese style tango features on the soundtrack which carries the sweet and chewy theme through the film which when you’re watching for a while seems to have an added softness to it, maybe that’s the sweet sound of Lebanese Arabic, though I can’t understand a word of I could listen to endlessly.
So excited to see this come back onto the iPlayer, if you miss it you can pick up the DVD here.
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