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Caramel

Country: France | Lebanon, Language: Arabic | French, 95 mins

Original Title

Sukkar Banat
  • Director: Nadine Labaki
  • Writer: Rodney El Haddad; Jihad Hojeily
  • Producer: Raphael Berdugo; Stephane Riga

CGiii Comment

This is an unexpected delight - funny and deeply touching.

Labaki's beauty is rare.

She acts with a naturalness that would put many a Hollywood starlet to shame.

She directs this rom-com with far more intelligence and insight than any Hollywood equivalent.

A beautiful piece of work.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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?

Cast & Characters

Nadine Labaki as Layale;
Yasmine Elmasri as Nisrine;
Joanna Moukarzel as Rima;
Gisele Aouad as Jamale;
Adel Karam as Youssef;
Sihame Haddad as Rose;
Aziza Semaan as Lili;
Fatmeh Safa as Siham;
Dimitri Staneofski as Charles;
Fadia Stella as Christine;
Ismael Antar as Bassam;
Yousra Karam as Salon client;
Victoria Bader as Salon client;
Nancy as Woman in taxi