On Lisbon Theaters!!!... (7)

Forget anything I've said until now regarding movies!!...

FORGET IT!

THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA!!!... You must watch it immediately and buy the DVD and buy the Soundtrack and buy a ticket to Lebanon right away!!!

It's called «Sukkar banat» («Caramel»), written and directed by Nadine Labaki, who also plays one of the main roles (Layal, who works at a beauty salon in Beirut along with three other women).

It is basically a romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut (Nadine's very own Beirut, as she writes at the end of the movie), but it could actually take place in a beauty salon at the old part of Lisbon's downtown...

Each character in the movie has a problem (just like any other women in the World):

1. Layal has a sick and unbalanced relationship with a married man (the things she did for Love, I guess all girls have done it, eventually, in one way or another...);
2. Nisrine, who is no more a virgin, will soon be married to a Muslim;
3. Rima is lesbian;
4. Jamal is worried about getting old;
5. Rose, a tailor woman with a shop next to the salon, is an old lady who devoted her whole life to take care of her older sister, Lili, having found her first love...

It is spoken in Arabic and a bit of French, something I had never EVER seen or heard before and sounds really great!!!... The soundtrack, by Khaled Mouzanar, is OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD, so it is now playing at Radio Atlantico Azul!!!... Ah... What a great movie!...