Film caramel de nadine labaki

The 4 nadine labaki films you must watch vogue arabia. Caramel frl 2007 interview with nadine labaki youtube. The movie that started it all, caramel is labaki s criticallyacclaimed directorial debut that thrust her in a burgeoning spotlight back in 2007. A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five lebanese women living in beirut. Caramel was written and directed by nadine labaki, a wellknown actress and music video director. As director and lead nadine labaki writes at the end, this is to my lebanon not the one usually portrayed as a perpetual war zone. One of the females is under great pressure as she is about to get married but she has premarital sexual experience labaki, 2007.

The general formula that labaki employs is rather rote, as each character is saddled with a particular narrative revolving around a personal. There is something sweet and subtle about nadine labakis film. Nadine labaki was born in lebanon and studied media at saintjoseph university in beirut. As role models, few filmmakers are more inspirational than nadine labaki. The first thing i tell director nadine labaki when we sit down together is that her new film is very hard to watch. In 2005, nadine participated in the cannes film festival residence to write caramel, her first feature film set in beirut. Khaled mouzanar, nadine labaki et maintenant on va ou. The lebanese director nadine labakis tragicomedy caramel deals with the everyday lives and desires of five women. Caramel bande originale du film licensed to youtube by believe music on behalf of naive, and 3 music rights societies. Capernaum, the story of a 12yearold beirut street kid, has been raking in prizes since it premiered at the cannes film festival, and director nadine labaki recently screened the movie at the. Cannes lebanese actressturnedhelmer nadine labaki, whose latest film where do we go now won prizes in cannes and toronto, is set to. Sekkar banat is a 2007 lebanese film the first feature film by lebanese directoractress nadine labaki. For this reason i choose people i can relate to in real life, whether they are actors or not.

Nadine labaki, director, cowriter and star of caramel, as the owner of. Labaki who plays the owner proves to be a sparkling performer, as do all of the other leads there s a punchiness to the material that most lazily made chick flicks would do well to emulate. Caramel directed by nadine labaki comedy, drama, romance pg 1h 35m. Not the usual war terrorism lebanon set film, but a look at the lives of a group of women in a beirut beauty salon. An actress as well, labaki also appears in capernaum, her third feature as writerdirector. Also cowriting the script and playing a lead role in a femaleled cast, the arab star portrays the everyday trials and tribulations of life and romance through the overlapping stories of five lebanese women from. As a director, i am always looking for that moment when i believe what i see. Nadine labaki for caramel asia pacific screen awards. I f queen latifahs beauty shop had been made in lebanon and featured more heart and less sassy braying, it would have looked a lot like caramel, writerdirector nadine labakis film about four women who work at andor frequent a beirut beauty parlor. Her first film, caramel, was a comedy about five lebanese women, and. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the late 1990s. She has been married to khaled mouzanar since october 2007.

The title refers to the homemade sugar concoction used in the salon instead of wax, as a depilatory. As in caramel 2007, which centers on a hair salon in beirut and its women workers and clientele, labaki stars in the new film and has a budding romance with a fellow lebanese. The film caramel 2007 is a story about five lebanese women who have their personal problems. The film makes beirut seem like a very happy, colorful, vibrant place. As all of the women interact, theres a solace it weaves in, much like spending time with our own mothers and friends. With nadine labaki, joanna moukarzel, gisele aouad, yasmine al massri. Also cowriting the script and playing a lead role in a femaleled cast, the arab star portrays the everyday trials and tribulations of life and romance through the overlapping stories of five lebanese women from different backgrounds who largely spend the length of the film talking in a beirut beauty parlor. Nadine labaki celebrity profile check out the latest nadine labaki photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. And what is shown is shown with candure and dignity, with humour and sensuality. Her filmmakin g career began in 2007 after the release of her debut film, caramel, which premiered at the cannes 2007 fil m festival.

She directed and took a lead role in the film, which premiered at cannes directors fortnight in 2007 and won the youth jury award, as well as the audience award at san sebastian film festival. Nadine antoine labaki was born february 18, 1974 in baabdet to antoine, a telecommunications engineer, and antoinette labaki, a homemaker. Caramelregisseurin nadine labaki uber tolle filme filmcheck. On top of the inherent difficulty of succeeding as a writerdirector, labaki grew up in lebanons warravaged capital, beirut, in a middle eastern culture where women are essentially secondclass citizens. Watch caramel movie by nadine labaki kooksi on dailymotion. Labaki, who has a writing credit on the film, makes caramel such a nourishing experience, introducing love, self care, doubt, femininity, family, and friendship in such a genuine way. As well as being an effervescent celebration of sisterhood, caramel explodes preexisting ideas of beirut. In caramel, your first film, and in this new film too, you work with amateur actors. In the process, she exposes a society in which beauty and virility are the main currency. Nadine may have begun her journey by escaping the outer world and running towards the solace of inner reflection, but that dynamic swiftly shifted to one where she now tackles things headon, grappling with topics that some wouldnt dare address, let alone dedicate five years of their lives to. Caramel is one of the rare contemporary films that shows restraint in its use of.

The movie that started it all, caramel is labakis criticallyacclaimed directorial debut that thrust her in a burgeoning spotlight back in 2007. In beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colourful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Absolutely delicious this peek into the conversations of women, usually with no men around. The most interesting part was learning that caramel is a kind of waxing paste made of boiled sugar, lemon, and water used in beauty salons in the region. I have a problem with the kind of scenes in which an actress plays a person who is dissimilar from her. Filmed in 2007 in beirut, the film sheds light on a variety of problems faced by contemporary lebanese women from a wide spectrum of ages and socialreligious backgrounds. The lebanese director nadine labakis blunt, satirical fable, where do we go now.

In 2007, her film caramel, which she wrote, directed, and played a leading role in, premiered at the directors fortnight at the cannes film festival in 2007 and was a commercial success in the. She is a wellknown director in the arabic music video industry and has directed clips for many well known middleeastern artists. Capernaum tackling its issues with heart and intelligence, labakis childendangerment tale is a splendid addition to the ranks of great guttersnipe dramas. This joyous, rebellious ode to female camaraderie was distributed worldwide and became the most successful lebanese film export of all time. The film premiered on may 20 at the 2007 cannes film festival, in the directors fortnight section. Dessen besitzerin layale nadine labaki beispielsweise befindet sich in einer. I mean this as a compliment, but also a kind of critique. Nadine labaki was born on february 18, 1974 in beirut, lebanon.