Caramel

A Haircut, With an Affair and Highlights of Support

The Beirut beauty salon where most of “Caramel” takes place is likely to be a familiar type of establishment, even to viewers who have never been to the Lebanese capital. What the shop lacks in sleekness and chic it makes up for in the kind of friendly, sisterly warmth that could be found, for instance, in “Beauty Shop,” the distaff installation in the “Barbershop” franchise.
Women of various shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds gather to bond and gossip. Their camaraderie is occasionally disrupted by a crisis, but you are likely to remember this charming film, directed by Nadine Labaki, less for its gently comic, mildly melodramatic plot than for its friendly and inviting atmosphere. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3024 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 1 febbario 2008