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- 2006
- Not Rated
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
Summary A group of American hairdressers head to Afghanistan to open the country's first post-Taliban beauty school.
Directed By: Liz Mermin
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
The Beauty Academy of Kabul
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Summary A group of American hairdressers head to Afghanistan to open the country's first post-Taliban beauty school.
Directed By: Liz Mermin
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
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32% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
68
68% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
32% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The teachers have moxie. The students have courage. Mermin's warm, funny, beautiful and deeply humane documentary certainly honors the latter.
A spiny, puzzling and highly entertaining film, and whatever you go into it thinking, you're likely to come out thinking something else.
Queen Latifah, the star of Barbershop 2 and Beauty Shop, and thus our reigning monarch of big-screen beauty stylists, should fund and narrate a sequel. Because The Beauty Academy of Kabul is good enough to make you want to know how they do.
The documentary takes on its own engaging shape - one of edgy editorial and political ambivalence.
Democracy might not really come from a bottle of shampoo, but "Beauty Academy" teaches us that, sometimes, mascara really matters.
In an act of "selfless service," a group of American women, backed by industry giants like Clairol and Vogue, open a beauty school in war-ravaged Afghanistan. The anomalies are manifold: Gun-toting soldiers patrolling the streets are visible through the windows as rookie beauticians busily snip, perm and tweeze.
Debbie, for better or for worse, is the high point of the entertaining but lightweight film, which is better suited to public TV than the big screen. Oh, yes. If anybody should decide to open another beauty school in Kabul, be sure to leave Debbie in Indiana.
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Production Company
Magic Lantern Media Inc.
Release Date Mar 24, 2006
Duration 1 h 14 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
