Director: Nadine Labaki
Rating: 10/10
Amidst the tragedies of a war-ravaged Beirut, which has been a major focus of most movies featuring Lebanon. here's a unique story about the sweet, salty and sour relationships of day to day life. Focusing on the intersecting lives of five Lebanese women, who run a beauty parlour, Caramel revolves around rather simple things that complicate the lives of women. Based on issues like relationships with married men, lesbianism, pre-marital sex and virginity, the constant war against old age and the overpowering burden of duties, Caramel sets out to evaluate how little things can affect life a lot and there are wars yet to be fought, but without ammunition and violence, against antiquated social customs, sexual inequality, orthodoxy, deception, betrayal and foolish fears that haunt a human heart.
I am not sure how you will perceive Caramel. It's not an outright cry for anything but is rather subtle in its messages, in its theme and it unfolds rather gradually, in the same way as Caramel will be poured out of a vessel. To some it maybe slow and for others, it may seem shallow on the face of it (yes, I have heard people describe it that way!). For me, however,it is romance created with a certain charm and poetic genius that will appeal only to those few who are sensitive towards it.
Rating: 10/10Amidst the tragedies of a war-ravaged Beirut, which has been a major focus of most movies featuring Lebanon. here's a unique story about the sweet, salty and sour relationships of day to day life. Focusing on the intersecting lives of five Lebanese women, who run a beauty parlour, Caramel revolves around rather simple things that complicate the lives of women. Based on issues like relationships with married men, lesbianism, pre-marital sex and virginity, the constant war against old age and the overpowering burden of duties, Caramel sets out to evaluate how little things can affect life a lot and there are wars yet to be fought, but without ammunition and violence, against antiquated social customs, sexual inequality, orthodoxy, deception, betrayal and foolish fears that haunt a human heart.
I am not sure how you will perceive Caramel. It's not an outright cry for anything but is rather subtle in its messages, in its theme and it unfolds rather gradually, in the same way as Caramel will be poured out of a vessel. To some it maybe slow and for others, it may seem shallow on the face of it (yes, I have heard people describe it that way!). For me, however,it is romance created with a certain charm and poetic genius that will appeal only to those few who are sensitive towards it.
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