Released Date:
2007-08-09
Languages:
Arabic, French
Countries:
France, Lebanon
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (8978 Reviews)
Director:
Nadine LabakiNadine Labaki (idea)
Jihad Hojeily (idea)
Nadine Labaki (screenplay)
Jihad Hojeily (screenplay)
Rodney El Haddad (screenplay)
Six women in Beirut seek love, marriage, and companionship and find duty, friendship, and possibility. Four work at a salon: Nisrine, engaged to Bassam, with a secret she shares with her co-workers; Jamale, a divorced mother of teens, a part-time model, fearing the encroachment of time; Rima, always in pants, attracted to Siham, a client who smiles back; Layale, in love with a married man, willing to drop everything at a honk of his horn. There's also Rose, a middle-aged seamstress, who cares for Lili, old and facing dementia. Rose has a suitor; Layale has an admirer on the police force. Is delight a possibility? Is caramel a sweet or an instrument of pain?
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