Caramel

In Beirut, there's no candy-coating women's repression

"Caramel" opens with a shot of a torrent of the sticky stuff, a vista that plays like a rising tide of unalloyed sweetness to domestic viewers. But in Lebanon's Beirut, where this effortlessly empathetic film is set, caramel means something else as well: It's used as a depilatory in beauty salons, inflicting pain rather than causing pleasure.
Co-written and directed by its star, Nadine Labaki, and a highlight of the Directors' Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival, "Caramel" practices a similar deception. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4006 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 1 febbraio 2008