Caramel opens with a shot of a flowing river of the syrupy liquid, but don't be fooled. In Beirut, caramel signifies more than sweetness; it's used as a depilatory in beauty salons, inflicting ...

"Caramel" is set in a Beirut beauty salon where the shop's stylists and mostly female clientele process all of life's most important passages -- weddings, funerals, menopause, even something as ...

The film Caramel explores the lives of five women who spend their time at a Beirut beauty salon. Director Nadine Labaki discusses her unusual take on the lives of Arab women in Lebanon.

In her basement workshop on the outskirts of Beirut, she gestured at what remained of windows of a 19th-century church she had restored after the 1975-1990 civil war.

The film Caramel explores the lives of five women who spend their time at a Beirut beauty salon. Nadine Labaki discusses why she decided to take a different approach to the lives of Arab women in ...