A large number of idiosyncratic and deadpan supporting characters provides amusement around dispirited women floating through sweetly satisfying meanderings.
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12/14/08
Jellyfish (2008)
87 %
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Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 46
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus: Lyrical, well-crafted and inventive, Jellyfish smartly mixes comedy, drama and magic realism.
Theatrical Release:Apr 4, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, JELLYFISH (MEDUZOT) is a moving film that follows the travails of three women in modern-day Tel Aviv. Batya (Sarah Adler) is struggling... [More]
Starring: Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Knoller
Director: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret
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10/18/08
A film that is fresh in both style and story.
10/18/08
There are sharply observed moments of social intercourse and a nice current of realistic honesty. But when I ask myself what it is that these women in the movie want, I come up with bubkes.
10/18/08
...the contrivances ... allow the filmmakers to tell the stories of a number of different characters who would otherwise have no business being in the same film.
09/19/08
The directors infuse the film with a short story’s spare dialogue and tight pacing -- the running time is all of 76 minutes -- while subtle visual motifs and judicious moments of magical realism demonstrate cinema at its most elegant.
08/28/08
Although its title might have some assuming this is a cheap remake of a bad horror B movie from the '50s, Jellyfish is actually quite a reflective and pensive picture.
08/08/08
Jellyfish, with its pervasive sense of mysticism, is anything but standard, predictable storytelling. What is it exactly? Well, you might as well ask a jellyfish.
08/08/08
Top CriticThematically, it's extremely precise, and one of its most compelling themes is the failure, or uselessness, of language.
08/08/08
Top CriticAlthough the "hyperlink" drama that features a lot of interconnecting storylines has become a common staple of the arthouse, "Jellyfish" manages to be a weird and memorable creature all its own.
06/20/08
It's a wisp of a thing, but it's a lovely wisp.
06/13/08
These interlocking stories don’t add up to a conventional narrative. It helps to think of Jellyfish as a tone poem. And like the invertebrate that is its namesake, the film is by turns beautiful, stinging and rather shapeless.
06/13/08
Light on its feet, deeply human, and fresh in style, this French-Israeli co-production serves up an engaging tale about a group of women struggling with daily life in contemporary Tel Aviv.
06/08/08
Most of the first hour passes without much more forward motion than its namesake. But in the corners and niches of that slow development, we get to know a handful of people, crisply drawn in fast sketches.
06/05/08
Top CriticShira Geffen's script is a poignant intersection of the regrettable past and the transitions that must occur to move on. In this 60th-year celebration of Israel, this film feels like the whole country.
06/03/08
It is a restful film, and one full of wise observations.
05/28/08
What gives the film a haunting and sometimes droll poetic unity is the way co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen trace all their characters moving in a jellyfish-like fashion.
05/23/08
A little piece of cinematic poetry.
05/23/08
Top CriticProvides a diverting portrait of modern-day Israel, as the filmmakers eschew history, politics and religion to focus instead on more intimate and universal issues of fate, loss and the longing to connect.
05/16/08
Top CriticA brief, haunting tale of three women in contemporary Tel Aviv, Jellyfish seems to float in its viewers' consciousness; you'll remember its images long afterward.
05/16/08
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