Caramel
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.
Trailer...
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