Caramel

Caramel is a view into the life of lower middle class women (just socioeconomically speaking not a character judgement) and the mores they must live by in Beirut, Lebanon. Most of the movie is set in a beauty shop. These women work very hard and must put up with a lot of expectations from their society, their family, as well as to try to be happy.
It is very good yet very depressing to see how these women are stuck in a quagmire and they will probably have to live with these expectations for the rest of their lives.
One of the women, before her wedding, is seen being told by her fiance that his family loves her when she says that she isn't being herself. In a previous scene, she was seen buttoning up her shirt and rolling down her sleeves. We get the feeling he loves a version of her not her, another woman is having a relationship with a married man, a third has feelings for a female client, one is always trying to get commercial work, one lady probably has alzeimer's or dementia, and her sister who cares for her lets a potential love go because she is the caretaker of her sister.Beautiful, sad and powerful.

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