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Caramel (PG)
IF YOU find Hollywood uninspiring and like to experiment with foreign films, why not settle down to enjoy the company of a group of women in a Lebanese beauty shop.
In a film named after a Middle Eastern legwax formula, writer-director Nadine Labaki stars as Layale whose two staff have their own romantic problems to match.
Then there's the customers who come in looking for the sort of lift which only beauticians can provide.
Using an almost exclusively non-professional cast, Labaki's finest achievement is to remind everyone that having 'an appetite for life and a taste for love' makes all women the same whatever their background - and that there's more to life in Beirut than bombs.
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