• Title:
• Jellyfish

• Director:
• Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen

• Hebrew, English and Tagalog with English subtitles

• Israel, 87 minutes

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1  

From the very first frame in Jellyfish, there is more than meets the eye. In modern-day Tel Aviv three women’s lives intersect for a moment at a wedding. Keren, the bride, breaks her ankle, ruining her plans for a Caribbean honeymoon. Batya, a waitress at the reception, later finds a lost girl on the beach who appears to her out of the Mediterranean wearing nothing but an inner-tube. Joy, a Filipino home health aid attending the party with one of her clients, takes care of others’ elderly parents while her own young son is raised by someone else. Jellyfish is a remarkable film that weaves these three stories together with visual poetry, magical moments and a humorous sense of melancholy. All of the characters in the film struggle with disappointments of varying degree in a universe that is random yet tantalizingly tinged with meaning and promises of human connection. Detailed story-telling infuses simple things like a toy boat, an ice cream cone, seashell patterned wallpaper and a pair of high heels with significance. This break-through collaboration by writer/directors Etgar Keret (author of The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God) and Shira Geffen is filled with memorable characters and stunning visual tableaus that linger in the memory long after the lights come up.

Winner, Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

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• Show 1  

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