Mereabeille (Book of days..altered-books..)

Caramel...mix sugar, water and lemon juice...heat it...let it get golden, a sweet paste, nice to eat, but also ready to epilate women...We are in Lebanon, in a beauty salon, in Beirut...2006...just a few weeks between two wars...and it's so good, so important to think about something else...Please do not follow these critics who say: Where is war ? these women's talks are so superficial, these are pure clichés...Shut up please critics, let these women live a few days of peace...
Let them combine "the idea of sweet and salt, sweet and sour".
swwet, sweat, tears, love...
Let me introduce our Lebanese sisters:
Layale, the catholic, still living with her parents (can't be otherwise) whom lover is married...
Nisrim the young fiancée , so worried of no longer being a virgin...
Rima falling in love with such a beautiful woman...
Jamale , divorced, so worried about getting old...pretending to have her periods...
Rose the old tailor, with her shop near the salon, Rose falling in love with old Charles, but Rose who must stay , and look after her sister, Lili the mad one...
Remember their names, except Layale, Nadine Labaki, they aren't actresses, just ordinary women...
Yasmine Al Masrri is Nisrim
Joanna Moukarzel is Rima
Gisèle Aouad is Jamale
Sihame Haddad is Rose
Aziza Seeman is Lili

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If you watch the video underneath this post you'll get an idea of the film...but there's a problem, the subtitles aren't very well translated...You'll hear some French words and sentences in the dialogue, some Lebanese people still speak French...but the dialogues are "softer", more familiar, more feminine in French and Arab, than in the English Translation you'll read on the vidéo...a pity really...so be brave, watch this version instead, you'll get a better idea of the film...

and when you watch the film, a little thing to do, have in your pocket some santal or jasmine and smell it from time to time...fragances are the only things missing...