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Review: Caramel

Surely to spark debate among Arab-speaking, Muslim and catholic practicing nations, Labaki borrows from comedic and dramatic elements to discuss more important issues – here apathy for those in pain and those of suffer is quantified in such scenes as the act of shampooing a customer’s head or an elderly women choosing to rub the freshly put makeup from right off her face.

Eric Lavallée

Published on February 1, 2008

Caramel

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).