Jellyfish – Vom Meer getragen (2007)

Jellyfish – Vom Meer getragen: Directed by Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret. With Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Raban. Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn’t speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

“NICE : As Paul Thomas Anderson with u0026quot;Magnoliau0026quot;, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen chose with u0026quot;Meduzotu0026quot; to focus on a few characters that life randomly carries from one shore to another. Everything is tainted by a depressive but amusing tone that gives a pleasant melancholia feeling to the spectator. The fact that the story happens in Tel-Aviv doesu0026#39;t seem to affect the lightness of this unpretentious movie, that only wants to underline the loneliness every human being faces in his life and give a little touch of hope to this sad fact.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEASY : As Agnès Jaoui in u0026quot;Le Goût des autresu0026quot;, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen donu0026#39;t avoid in u0026quot;Meduzotu0026quot; some very easy and predictable critics, especially when it comes to give a satirical look on the artistic world of theater of the city. They also canu0026#39;t avoid some u0026quot;Shortcutsu0026quot; in the portrayal of their characters, and especially in the depiction of the angry – but at the end nice and well… just lonely – old lady. This two elements spoil a little bit the pleasure you can get to the pleasant little scenes the film offer.”