Jellyfish

Meduzot

France, Israel

2007

78 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, German, Tagalog, Hebrew

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Yaël Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez, Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait

CAST Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Knoller, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Zaharira Harifai

ED Sascha Franklin, François Gédigier

SOUND Olivier Dô Hûu

Cannes (Semaine de la Critique): Caméra d'Or, SACD Screenwriting Award, San Sebastián (Zabaltegi-Pearls), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Telluride, London

Synopsis

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. –IMDB

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Matt Kilgore

4Dec11

A bit of an overlooked masterpiece. Brilliant as both universal (not as a cliche, but as the universal situation of people battling their circumstances with dignity and love and brokenness) and distinct to Israel, characters both esoteric and down to earth. Jellyfish really cares about its characters in a manner entirely absent of cynicism. A refreshing gem.