Caramel
(Sukkar banat)
Showing Fri 30 May to Thu 05 Jun
Rated 12
- Director
- Nadine Labaki
- Country of origin and year
- France/Lebanon 2007
- Duration
- 96 minutes
- Certificate
- Rated PG
- Cast
- Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Adel Karam.
Arabic and French with English subtitles
Screening Information
Matinees (before 5pm): £4.50 / £3.00
Evening screenings (after 5pm): £6.00 / £4.50
Booking hotline: 0131 228 2688.
Screenings from Fri 30 May
| Day | Screening times | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 30 May | 13:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 3 | |||
| Sat 31 May | 13:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 3 | |||
| Sun 01 Jun | 18:40 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:50 Filmhouse screen 3 | |||
| Mon 02 Jun | 15:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 3 | |||
| Tue 03 Jun | 15:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 3 | ||
| Wed 04 Jun | 15:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 3 | |||
| Thu 05 Jun | 15:30 Filmhouse screen 3 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 3 | |||
If Pedro Almodóvar were to take Steel Magnolias and rework it into something a bit less maudlin, and relocate the action to a Beirut beauty shop instead of the American South, the outcome might resemble Lebanese director and star Nadine Labaki's debut feature, a brisk dramatic comedy that combines melodrama, humour and social critique in equal measure.
The setting is Beirut's Si Bella salon, an upscale beauty parlour where middle-class Lebanese women congregate to talk about men, sex and motherhood, in between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel. The shop is run by Layale (Labaki), an independent Christian businesswoman who is nevertheless trapped in an adulterous affair with Rabih, a married man. Her assistant Nisrine (Yasmine Elmasri) is a Muslim beauty with a serious problem of her own – she is about to marry into a strict Muslim family, but worries that, come her wedding night, her unsuspecting husband will realise that she's not a virgin.
Labaki's engaging and accomplished film also takes in the surrounding neighbourhood and its characters, and the result is a warm, often very funny tribute to the power of friendship among women, and to the city in which it all unfolds.
Please note: Contains mild sex references, language and one drug reference
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