(Caramel is a new feature) written and directed by Nadine Labaki, a young Lebanese filmmaker who also (plays one of the starring roles) in this charming kind of soap-opera movie about a beauty salon in Beirut. Ms. Labaki plays Layale who runs the salon, it’s (kind of) a slightly rundown place but it’s got a lot warmth and fellow feeling and (solidarity) in it, that comes from the friendships among the women, who make up most of this movie. They gossip about love, they (worry about) getting old, about men. And they follow their different (storylines) in a very relaxed, (easygoing), somewhat sentimental and ever-so-slightly melodramatic way. (In some ways), this movie doesn’t break a whole lot of new ground, we’ve seen movies about female friendship before, but this one has a very special (atmosphere), partly because the city of Beirut is so lovingly and beautifully rendered in it, and also because the women are played with such particularity and sensitivity. There is a nice relaxed easygoing feel to this movie. It’s (very charming), it’s very touching. And you feel at the end of it ,like that you’ve been (invited into this world) and made one of the girls.
Vocabulary:
melodramatic: If you behave in a melodramatic way, you become more angry or upset than is really necessary
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