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Whistle Stopper - Caramel
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Manufacturer: Lionsgate
Starring: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Adel Karam
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0031398228608
Format: AC-3
Label: Lionsgate
Manufacturer: Lionsgate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lionsgate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Running Time: 93
Studio: Lionsgate
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Summary: Beautiful movie!
Comment: I have seen it so many times . It makes me laugh , and cry . So well done! I love it
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Summary: Wax . . .
Comment: Five women in modern-day Beirut find themselves torn between East and West, the traditional role of women in their culture and the desire for independence and equality. This being the Lebanese version (not Saudi or Iranian) of that dilemma, the women's difficulties are more light-hearted and only somewhat about confrontations with rigid morality and restrictive social customs. Three of them are hairdressers in a somewhat chaotic beauty shop (where the signage out front is askew), a fourth is a fading actress with a divorced husband and two uncooperative kids, and the fifth is a seamstress attempting to look after an aging and demented mother.
Living in a secular world, it matters little who is Christian and who is Muslim. More pressing is the matter of surgically restoring a lost virginity in time for a young bride's wedding night or finding a room for an unmarried couple in a hotel that doesn't require proof of marriage. There is bittersweetness aplenty and not all ends happily, but viewers will enjoy watching as the age-old complications of men and women in search of mates and self respect is played out for better or worse. The DVD includes a short interview with the director.
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Summary: The Microcosm of the Beauty Salon
Comment: SUKKAR BANAT (CARAMEL) marks a fine directorial debut for the stunningly beautiful Lebanese actress Nadine Labaki. Though films about the private lives of a circle of women who gather in a mutual watering hole to gossip, share joys and pains of love affairs, as well as being the important support group they all need are plentiful (think STEEL MAGNOLIAS), few come as close to the intimacy shared by this talented cast whose disparate problems keep the film flying. The screenplay by Rodney El Haddad and Jihad Hojeily is greatly enhanced by the cinematography by Yves Sehnaoui with the atmospheric musical score by Khaled Mouzannar, but it is the impeccable cast that completes this tender, humorous, and gently sentimental little tale.
The film shows us a Lebanon we rarely see. The setting is a Beirut beauty salon La Belle owned by Layale (Nadine Labaki) whose frequent absences from her place of business are due to trysts with a married man, trysts often delayed by a police officer, the handsome and infatuated Youssef (Adel Karram). Working in the shop is Rima (Johanna Moukarzel) whose same sex infatuation with a beautiful patron is subtly explored, and regulars in the salon include an aging wannabe actress Jamale (Gisèle Aouad), a non virgin bride to be Nisrine (Yasmine Elmasri) and an older seamstress Rose (Sihame Haddad) who has elected to relinquish her hopes for love with a willing and potential elderly man Charles (Dimitri Staneofski) in favor of continuing to care for her humorously senile mother Lili (Aziza Semaan).
How these unforgettable characters interact, displacing each other's anxieties by caring friendship freely shared, offers each of these fine actresses many moments of glory in addition to creating a fine ensemble effect as sensitively directed by Nadine Labaki. This little film (in Arabic and French with subtitles) is a complete pleasure and will likely draw attention to future films from Lebanon. Grady Harp, July 08
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Summary: Arab Chick Flick - But Pretty Good!
Comment: Sort of a Lebanese "Sex in the City." These beauty parlor companions - one of whom is the smokin' hot Nadine Labaki -- in Beirut use caramel as a depilatory.
Through the twists and turns of their ambitions and love lives, they show that life is a bit life caramel: at times sticky, at other times sweet, painful and wrenching. The qualities are alloyed together.
Worth seeing!
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Summary: Wonderful Movie
Comment: This is a wonderful movie, it definitely exceeded my expectations. The characters are funny, and real. They embody everything that is sweet, nice and tender about Lebanese. They show the fragile yet powerful situation of Lebanese women. I recommend to anyone who would like to see some glimpses of the Lebanese society.
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A Beirut beauty salon becomes a treasured meeting place for several generations of women from various walks of life to talk seek advice and confide in one another.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIP Rating: PG UPC: 031398228608 Manufacturer No: 22860
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