Caramel - سكر بنات

http://lebanesefilms.blogspot.com/2007/06/caramel.html

A trailer for Sukkar banat (سكر بنات) or Caramel, first feature film by Nadine Labaki (Director for Nancy Ajram main video clips)

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Caramel (Arabic:سكر بنات Sukkar banat) is a 2007 Lebanese film, the first feature film by the lebanese director Nadine Labaki. It is set to be released in late 2007. The film have premiered on March 20 during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors' Fortnight section. This film have ran for the Caméra d'or during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

In the title of Caramel, Nadine refers to an epilation method used in the middle east that consists of heating sugar, water and lemon juice. She tries as well to refer to the "idea of sweet and salt, sweet and sour".


Synopsis:
Layal (Nadine Labaki) works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with 3 other women. Each one has a problem: Layal has a relationship with a married man, Nisrine (Yasmine Al Masri) who is no more a virgin, will soon be married, Rima (Joanna Moukarzel) is attracted to girls and Jamal (Gisèle Aouad) is worried about getting old. Rose (Sihame Haddad), a tailor with a shop next to the salon, is an old lady who devoted her life to take care of her older sister Lili (Aziza Semaan), have found her first love.


Cast and Characters:
-Nadine Labaki as Layal
-Adel Karam as Youssef (The policeman)
-Yasmine Al Masri as Nisrine
-Joanna Moukarzel as Rima
-Gisèle Aouad as Jamal
-Sihame Haddad as Rose
-Asiza Semaan as Lili (Rose older sister)
-Fatmeh Safa as Siham (Mysterious lady with long hair to whom Rima get attracted)
-Ismail Antar as Bassam (Nisrine's fiancé)
-Fadia Stella as Christine
-Dimitri Stancofski as Charles


Trivia:
-The shooting of Caramel ended just 9 days before the Israeli war against Lebanon in July 2006.
-Apart Nadine Labaki and Adel Karam, this is the first experience in movies for the other leading role actors.
-Nadine Labaki is engaged to Khaled Mouzanar, the Music Composer for Caramel's soundtrack.
-Caroline Labaki, Nadine's sister, was the one responsible of Costume Design.
-An old clothes shop in the Beirut District of Gemmayze have been transformed into a salon where the shooting of the film took place.


(info from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramel_%28film%29 )

NEW!!! official website:
www.caramel-lefilm.com

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[biamarcula]

This film is adorable!

[translationwiz]

My god...........subhanallah.....­.....Lebanese women are soooo beautiful. Mashallah. And I mean inside as well as outside.

peace/salam

[TripoliLy]

What trailer goes on for six minutes!

[missisfreddiemercury]

stupid movie

[cha0sstrik3r]

@AryanImmortalCYRUS get out of here hairy persian

[ameliebee]

beautiful beautiful movie



[AryanImmortalCYRUS]

you retarded slaves worship the arabised jewgod???? You think their monkey language is sacred??? They are illiterate leezard eater sand monkeys, they love young boys filthy moslem animals. ZORASTER is the one true god, not the jewgod they enslaved you to!!! He will rise up, as will the persian people, and cast off this vile semitic creation. Do not worship the arab desert ape false god, the god of the JEW. Stand for zoaraster and parsa anuysa!

[Layal0201]

@94underscored Lebanon

[Layal0201]

@94underscored Lebanon

[YehiaYMS]

@94underscored lebanon :)