Caramel

**the following dates are subject to change -- these links are for your convenience only, please do not call the theatre if CARAMEL is not yet listed on their website

COMING SOON

West Hampton Beach [Hampton Arts Cinema]

Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes

Rated PG for thematic elements involving

sexuality, language and some smoking

We would like to tell you about CARAMEL, a new award-winning Lebanese film that will open in select cities next month.

This film is special for many reasons.

•First, it is critically acclaimed. A hit at the Cannes Film Festival this past year, CARAMEL went on to win the Audience Award at The San Sebastian Film Festival. And it was Lebanon's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards this month. Read all the reviews of CARAMEL…click HERE.
•Second, CARAMEL is an Arab film that is not only directed by a woman, it also features an all-women cast. This is, in and of itself, an exceptional achievement.
•Third, it is utterly charming. CARAMEL centers around five women whose lives intersect in a beauty salon, a colorful and sensual microcosm of Beirut. The salon is a place where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel, they engage in intimate and liberated conversations that reveal their joys and fears surrounding men, sex and motherhood.
•Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, it marks one of the widest U.S. theatrical releases of a film from an Arab nation in recent years. Supporting this film sends a message to the film industry that there is a viable market for films from this part of the world. It also affords those outside the Arab-American community an opportunity to gain a wider perspective on a region of the world that most know far too little about. Films like CARAMEL remind us that our similarities oftentimes vastly outweigh our differences.