Roycroft Film Society featuring Caramel on May 5, 2019 at 4pm at the Parkdale Elementary School at 141 Girard Street. (Route 400, Maple St exit, right off exit onto Maple, Right on Girard, School on left, entrance on left). $8 or $20 for single membership or $30 for a family.
(wikipedia) Caramel revolves around the intersecting lives of five Lebanese women. Layale (Nadine Labaki) works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with two other women, Nisrine (Yasmine Al Massri) and Rima (Joanna Moukarzel). Each one has a problem: Layale is stuck in a dead-end relationship with a married man; Nisrine is no longer a virgin but is set to be married, and in her conservative family pre-marital sex is not accepted; Rima is attracted to women; Jamale (Gisèle Aouad), a regular customer and wannabe actress, is worried about getting old; Rose (Sihame Haddad), a tailoress with a shop next to the salon, is an old woman who had devoted her life to taking care of her mentally unbalanced elder sister Lili (Aziza Semaan), but has found her first love
