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Plot summary
Layale works at a Beirut beauty salon with Nisrine and Rima, and the three women trade the details of their lives. Layale is caught in a relationship with a married man she can see only in his car or hear on the phone from her parents' home. Nisrine is engaged to Bassam, but her family's conservative rules leave her hiding a secret about her past. Rima is drawn to Siham, a client with long hair. Jamale, a regular at the salon, is a divorced mother and part-time model who dreads growing older. Next door the seamstress Rose has spent her life caring for her older sister Lili. A policeman, Youssef, keeps turning up around Layale.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Caramel (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Filming on Caramel wrapped only nine days before the Israel–Lebanon war broke out in July 2006, and the film reached Cannes a year later.
- The beauty salon of the film was created by converting an old clothes shop in the Gemmayzeh area of Beirut District, where the movie was shot.
