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Caramel

Direction
LABAKI Nadine
  
 > Fortnight 2007
 
This film runs for the Caméra d'or


Synopsis

In Beirut, five women meet up at a beauty salon, a highly colourful and sensual microcosm.
Layale loves Rabih, but he is married man.
Nisrine is a Muslim and she has a problem with her coming wedding: She’s no longer a virgin.
Rima is tormented by her attraction to women.
Jamale is refusing to grow old.
Rose has sacrificed herself to look after her older sister.
At the salon, men, sex and motherhood are the subjects at the heart of their intimate and liberated conversations.

 
 
 
  1h36 / 35mm / 1.85 / color / dolby SRD
2007 / Liban, France

Script: Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Rodney Al Haddad
Image: Yves Sehnaoui
Sound: Pierre-Yves Lavoué, Hervé Guyader, Emmanuel Croset
Music: Khaled Mouzanar
Design: Cynthia Zahar
Editing: Laure Gardette


Additionnal info

v.o : Arabe / in : Arabic

Cast : Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Adel Karam, Siham Haddad, Aziza Semaan, Fatme Safa, Dimitri Stancofski, Fadia Stella, Ismail Antar


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