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CARAMEL Nadine Labaki as Layale in the sweetly soapy drama set at a Beirut beauty salon
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
The kvetches of regulars at a cheery Beirut beauty salon couldn't be more familiar — and that's the slender charm of Caramel, a Lebanese variation on sweetly soapy dramas about Women Who Bond With Wet Hair. Among the femme woes: One lady's got a married lover; another a fear of aging; a third a crazy sister. Then again, as Steel Magnolias' bride-to-be, Julia Roberts never had to deal with a stumper like considering a surgical ''restoration'' of her virginity before marriage to her Muslim fiancé. B
Posted Jan 30, 2008
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