If Pedro Almodovar were to take
Steel Magnolias and rework it into something a bit less maudlin, and relocate the action to a Beirut beauty shop instead of the American South, the outcome might resemble Lebanese director and star Nadine Labaki's debut feature, a brisk dramatic comedy that combines melodrama, humor and social critique in equal measure.
The setting is Beirut's Si Bella salon, an upscale beauty parlor where middle-class Lebanese women congregate to exchange gossip, get their hair done and have unwanted hair removed with caramel, that sticky-sweet cooked-sugar confection that can also serve as an effective depilatory. The shop is run by ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
96 mins