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'Caramel'
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Another beauty salon comedy? Yes and no. This affecting ensemble piece from Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki foams over with the scissor-sisters spirit of a "Beauty Shop" or "Steel Magnolias," but it eschews the easy wisecrack for authentically inhabited characters.
The strikingly beautiful Labaki plays Layale, a salon proprietor trapped in a dead-end relationship with a married man. While...
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