Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

flickpick135 A thoroughly charming and engaging slice of life from Lebanon. This is truly a unique and wondrous foreign film, romanticizing an exotic land which is often negatively depicted. Director/actress Labaki zones in on the human side here, reminding us that such universal issues as marriage, sexuality, and relationship anxiety are relevant everywhere.Labaki has great screen presence and crafts a tragicomic fable about female relationships. She beautifully elicits natural performances from her non-professional actors and delivers a believable and appealing portrayal herself.This is definitely a must watch for fans of not just foreign films but of enchanting, whimsical cinematic treasures in general. Love it!!!

Imdbidia Caramel is a Lebanon-France Co-production with a charming story of female love, friendship and aging. The story focus on the love life of a group of young and middle-age women who work/visit a hair & beauty salon. The story breaks many stereotypes about religious confrontation in Lebanon and on how Middle Eastern Women think, feel or live.The movie mix romance, humor and sadness with simplicity, warmth, and heart under the fresh direction of young actress-director Nadine Labaki, who also plays the leading character.All the actors are terrific in their performances: Yasmine Elmasri as the modern and untraditional Muslim girl Nisrine, who is going to get married; Joanna Moukarzel as the boyish Lesbian Rima; Gisèle Aouad as the aging divorced actress Jamale who struggles with having to find a job in the modeling industry and move on with her life after her divorce; Nadine Labaki as Layale, a good-hearted girl who discovers her boyfriend is a married man; Adel Karam as the sweet policeman Youssef in love with Layale; Sihame Haddad as the patient and shy single tailor Rose, and Aziza Semaan as an impressive demented Lili.The face of Lebanon and Beirut shown is real and diverse, not stereotypical, despite showing Christians and Muslims, and different social groups. The Beirut we see is not the one under reconstruction, the post-war destroyed one, but the Beirut of the people who live in the city, the ones who make it a lovable place. We see real people who live their lives in their own way and faith and that intermingle without problems, a world in which Christianity and Islam and present in equal parts in their culture, people who struggle with the same issues that we Westerners do.The movie was shot in warm caramel tones, that goes well with title, which relates to the waxing system using home-made caramel that the beautician uses.The music, a warm and sentimental mix of French and Arabic songs is truly fantastic.A heart-warming enjoyable film that offers a real portrait of life in modern Beirut and Lebanese women told in an universal simple and touching language, with some soapy moments.

tlowell5 I saw this film recently on Netflix, and I was very impressed. My wife's father is Lebanese, and my wife has three older sisters, so the film resonated with both of us and we enjoyed it very much.*** MINOR SPOILER ALERT *** I won't go into all the plot points, which are well described in other reviews. One thing I did want to mention is a particular scene, probably the finest among many great scenes in the picture, where the shop owner Layale is speaking on a cell phone to her married lover while peeking out of the blinds of her shop. Across the street in a café is her admirer, a handsome policeman who patrols a beat near the shop. The policeman can see Layale through the blinds, and he imagines to himself that he is the one on the other end of the phone. He watches as Layale laughs, smiles, and acts coyly while speaking to her lover, and he invents dialog that would have elicited the responses that he is seeing. Finally, Layale hangs up the phone and catches a glimpse of the policeman across the street in the café. The final shot of the scene is the photo on the DVD cover.This is one of the most beautiful, touching, and clever scenes I have ever seen in a movie, and it bodes well for a long and marvelous career for Ms. Labaki. I look forward to her next films with great anticipation, and I hope I can see them sooner than four years after they are released.

OutsideHollywoodLand The prologue to Nadine Labaki's Caramel finely-crafted film underlines the point that it takes a lot to shape a woman's character. Taking place around a table, several women are playfully cooking and eating a batch of warm, amber-colored caramel. Some of the sugared paste is also being stored into jars to use for hair removal in their shop.Caramel's tale of friendship and love, set in the Middle East, can easily strike a universal chord in every woman. Nadine Labaki's directorial debut takes that warmth to weave a tale of sisterhood involving six Lebanese women who laugh, cry, and celebrate life in a beauty parlor called Si Belle.Situated in on a busy Beirut street, Si Belle stands out, not for it's lack of a glamorous façade, but because the letter B in the storefront's sign is literally hanging on by a neon thread. This pretty much describes where our six heroines are at the beginning of their story.Layale literally flies off to meet her lover, a married man, in the middle of client's coiffures, leaving them astounded and her co-workers frazzled. Youssef, a traffic cop, watches her flight with a wishing heart. Nisrine is engaged and fretting that her fiancée will discover on their wedding night that someone else got there first. Rima, the shampoo girl, wistfully sighs and shares stolen glances with a beautiful customer. Jamale, a frequent customer and good friend, stubbornly refuses to acknowledge her retreating youth, by continuing to audition for acting roles meant for fresher faces. And Rose looks after her sister Lili, retreating further into her tiny tailor shop as life passes her by.The ensemble cast delivers a fine set of performances, as Labaki gently coaxes her cast to the finish line, through a series of long shots and polite close-ups. Laure Gardette's editing is a bit choppy, yet is forgotten while Khaled Mouzannar's playful musical score is playing. Amid the touch-ups and back-combing, laughter and sighs, Caramel reminds us that life's ups and downs are easier to bear with a sister close at hand.