Assi Dayan, Bruria Albek, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov
Three very different women live in modern Tel Aviv, Israel. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
Stats: 184 reviews
A very fine film co-directed by one of Israel's most compellingly offbeat writers, Etgar Keret (whom I met once, actually). Despite a few clichés here and there, this is overall a quite enthralling work. And it's great to see veteran Israeli actors Assi Dayan and (especially welc...( read more)
Excellent from A to Z. It made me want to visit Tel Aviv even more. See it and you won't regret it.
Brilliant Movie... very good photography,much of the scenes look like very contemporary art photography.. loved it.
This is on the best foreign films I have seen this spring.
The kind of magical realism we see in the Israeli indie effort "Jellyfish" is a tricky business; if poorly handled, it's contrived and saccharine. This comedy-drama has whimsical moments, but through adroit direction it ...( read more)
A 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. full review
These stories have as their justification that fact that they are intrinsically interesting. I think that's enough. full review
Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have made a mysterious film, full of existential anxiety, in which lonely people, all connected to the sea, find ways to repair their lives. full review
Jellyfish is the kind of movie in which the accidental connections between lonely city dwellers are given a magical glow of serendipity.
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