Jellyfish

Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen's ensemble comedy drama Meduzot (aka Jellyfish, 2007) weaves together multiple seriocomic tales of intersecting lives, set against the deep azure backdrop of Middle Eastern seascapes. Affording equal emphasis to each tale, Keret and Geffen first hone ...more

Weddings are a bitch, and not just for the bride and groom. The participants, guests, and those working the event as photographers and caterers are sucked into the madness and hellish chaos of wedded bliss. In the arthouse film Jellyfish, which was jointly directed by husband-wife team Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret, the choppy narrative—perhaps a result of "two" many directors—follows three diverse, lonely, unrelated women whose lives intersect at a wedding in Tel Aviv. The women don't interact ...more

At its heart, Jellyfish is a film about love, but romance barely enters into the picture. Instead, Jellyfish concerns itself with the way people can lift each other up and drag each other down, sometimes without actually trying -- husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, children, even strangers -- and how complex the business of caring for someone else can be, no matter how simple it all seems on the surface. Filmmakers Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen juggle several stories at once in this movie -- a ...more