Monday, July 11, 2011

Caramel - 2008 ****



A surprisingly riveting film, that merits more than one viewing. It centres around a group of friends who work in a Beauty Parlour in Beirut, and the trials an tribulations that they each have to go through in aspects of their lives and relationships. One is fixated on her affair with a married man, another is a shy lesbian who has feelings for one of her clients, another cannot bear to tell her husband-to-be that he won't be her first lover on their wedding night which could have her imprisoned.

Each story is interesting without going over the top with realistic acting.

Great to see into another world where religion and tradition are so completely alien to the way that Western society is.

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