Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Omar Jamal I don't know if it was my talking during the movie, my short attention span, or the fact that I might be an idiot. I just don't get what's so good about this movie. I saw it on rotten tomatoes, it had a 92% rating. "Wow! This movie must be a classic of epic proportions." I said to myself. BOYYYYY!!! Was I wrong!I mean the visual aspect of the movie was almost flawless: The setting was nice, the cinematography was good, and the acting felt authentic except that annoying Lily, she was very distracting and very much contrasted the movie's rather serious tone in a poorly done way. By all means, when it comes to those aspects, I understand why people like this movie. However, what I hated about this movie was the script, which felt shallow, underwhelming, and the story kept too many loose ends. I mean if this movie took a little bit longer to make, it would've answered a few more questions, because when I came to the end, my first reaction was, "That's it?"What I experienced in this movie was the feeling of being underwhelmed - the feeling that something was missing. There was a certain void that the movie didn't fill for me. Many of the subplots felt like they lead to nothing: Who is that dirty swine that Layal likes, and what does she love about him? What happens with the Lesbian stereotype and her object of admiration? What is the woman doing at the photo-shoot?I mean I like movies that ask questions more than they answer, but this movie answered none except maybe why the old woman won't go on a date with the old man, but the answer was unconvincing and it felt like an afterthought. Another problem with this movie was that the scenes took longer than they should. I understand the purpose of the whole thing: to suck us with the setting and emotions displayed on screen - but this process clearly came at the expense of the story.I came into this movie expecting something of overwhelming emotional magnitude. What I got instead was a movie that proved why one must not always place style over substance. Your movie might look beautiful and suck you in with its beautiful scenery, however all that is just designed to keep you from noticing how underwritten this entire movie is.

simona gianotti In Beirut, six women and six stories meet around a women's beauty parlour: Layale, in love with a married man who will never leave his wife for her, Nisrine, who is going to get married and doesn't know how to tell his boyfriend she is no longer virgin, Rima, who doesn't accept to be attracted by women, Jamale, obsessed by age and physical appearance and Rose, who has sacrificed the best years of her life to look after her sister. Inside the hot, colourful and magnetic atmosphere of the old-fashioned beauty parlour, between brush strokes and caramel wax we hear them speaking about sex, love, maternity, with the freedom and intimacy that only women can show. The result is a delicate fresco on women, capable of getting straightforwardly to the heart of women, but not only. A very delicate, never vulgar watercolour, depicting women involved in what seem to be out of time female problems and concerns. A fresco which also deals with hot topical issues, such as war, the living together between Catholics and Muslims, the clash of different cultures, but never losing its amusing and amused tone. In the end, we are both stunned and comforted by the strength that only women can show when they join together and problems are to be faced. The director and actress Nadine Labaki manages to render the female daily melancholy, without ever falling into the banal or the cliché, but through a powerful and intense synaesthetic strategy: through eyes, smells, sounds, in such a poignant way, as to make us able to touch, to smell, to taste what is being performed, as if we were absorbed in that same intense atmosphere. A word must be spent for the soundtrack, well and wisely dosed, and never boring. A feel-good and intelligent movie I would suggest to all women, and, why not, also to men.

Roland E. Zwick Like the confectionery treat that is its namesake, "Caramel" is a sweet-tasting concoction that leaves you feeling less satiated than undernourished when it's over. Set in and around a beauty parlor in Beirut, Lebanon, the story chronicles the decidedly low-keyed romantic escapades of a group of women (some of them stylists and others customers at the shop), all of whom fall out into neatly differentiated categories like "the non-virginal fiancé," (apparently, that's still a concern in that part of the world), "the lonely spinster," "the other woman," "the lesbian," etc.Within its comparatively restricted genre (let's just call it the "hair emporium movie," for lack of a better term), "Caramel" is less theatrical than "The Salon," but nowhere near as sharp and funny as "Barbershop" or "Steel Magnolias." The actresses are all competent and appealing, but the material is stretched so thin that the movie barely makes it across the finish line before calling it quits.

sebkom I watched this movie today and I can say I am a bit disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the movie wasn't bad in general, but I was expecting more. It's the hype, again...Coming from Greece, I can say that I found the situation described in the movie pretty familiar and that's another excuse for my low vote (7/10).It's like an hour since I saw the movie and if you I had to say three things about the movie I'd say "Habibi" (the Arabic word for "love", I think), "Lili" and "Oh my, Nadine's eyes are so stunning".All in all, it's a good way to spent some time.