Beauty of the mind and body conspires to survive under the guns of UN troops guarding the fragile peace against the moonscape of war that is Kabul.
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04/03/06
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The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:46
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: There's nothing frivolous about beauty school when hearing about the individual lives of these women in Afghanistan, and the contrast between them and the idealistic beauticians from America.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Mar 24, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: After the Taleban's fall, a group of American beauticians take their curling irons to Afghanistan to open the country's first beauty school. --© BBC Films
Director: Liz Mermin
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Reviews for The Beauty Academy of Kabul
Warm, funny and hugely entertaining.
03/24/06
A touching and gently funny testament to the resilience of the Afghan women, many of whom share harrowing stories of life under the Taliban.
03/24/06
Mermin's straightforward, no-frills account of how a group of American hair stylists taught their craft to Afghan women recently emerging from Taliban rule is admirably solicitous toward both teachers and students.
03/24/06
Top CriticIt may sound a little silly at first, but The Beauty Academy of Kabul, a new documentary, illustrates the good sense behind it.
03/24/06
Top CriticEntertaining but lightweight film, which is better suited to public TV than the big screen.
03/24/06
Mermin vividly explores both the beauty within its walls and the dangers outside.
03/24/06
Despite ample opportunity to pontificate or draw broad geopolitical conclusions, the focus remains resolutely fixed on the personal portraits of individual women who ultimately confirm the old adage that real beauty comes from within.
03/24/06
You would be blameless if you thought you had walked into another clever Christopher Guest mockumentary.
03/23/06
Mermin achieves an easy intimacy with students and instructors alike.
03/23/06
Director Liz Mermin documents the hilarious, moving and sometimes fractious meeting of diametrically different cultures, one that has suffered unimaginable horrors and one that believes a good perm is the answer to everything.
03/23/06
Top CriticSometimes hair dye and lipstick speak louder than banners and raised fists.
03/22/06
Top CriticThe movie carefully obscures its attitude toward these stunning Samaritans, or so it would seem.
03/21/06
Allows cross-cultural conversations about love, relationships, and marriage to convey the beauty school's potential for cultivating hope in a more progressive future.
01/11/06
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