2007 · comedy · drama · romance
Caramel
Directed by Nadine Labaki1h 36m2007
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.
Our read: Caramel (2007) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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“You want intimate Beirut salon stories about women, desire, and quiet resilience.”
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