Meduzot (2007)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Directors:

Shira Geffen
Etgar Keret

Writer:

Shira Geffen (writer)

Release Date:

28 June 2007 (Israel)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Love. Longing. Magic. (USA)

Plot:

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living...

Plot Keywords:

Little Girl | Human Relationship | Water | Hotel | Underwater Scene

Awards:

4 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Sarah Adler	...	Batia
Nikol Leidman	...	Girl
Gera Sandler	...	Michael
Noa Knoller	...	Keren
Ma-nenita De Latorre	...	Joy
Zaharira Harifai	...	Malka
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tsipor Aizen	...	Tamar
Bruria Albeck	...	Relly
Ilanit Ben-Yaakov	...	Galia
Assi Dayan	...	Eldad
Miri Fabian	...	Nili
Shosha Goren	...	Tikva
Tzahi Grad	...	Police Man
Johnathan Gurfinkel	...	Amir
Amir Harel	...	Doctor
Tami Harel	...	Nurse
Yitzhak Hizkiya	...	Eytan
Dror Keren	...	Taxi-Driver
Efraim Keret	...	Ice seller
Etgar Keret	...	Manager
Naama Nisim	...	Neomi
Shalom Shmuelov	...	Menachem
Amos Shoov	...	Eyal
Yali Sobol	...	Amir
Liron Vaisman	...	Shiri

Also Known As:

Jellyfish (International: English title) (literal title)
Méduses, Les (France)

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

France | Israel

Language:

Hebrew | English | Tagalog | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Argentina:13 | Germany:6 | South Korea:12 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

The ice-cream vendor is played by the father of co-director Etgar Keret.

Beautifully told uplifting film

This film is an elegant, simply told, and uplifting look at ordinary life. Although it relates the problems of the cast of main characters at different stages in their various lives, it does so with many small touches of humour, which lifts the mood along the way. Above all, expect a good, tight, literary script, which manages to weave together the disparate story lines to make a convincing whole. I saw this at the Dublin Film Festival, and I hope very strongly that it makes it to general release in Ireland and the UK. There are a lot of inferior art-house films which get distributed because they have big names behind them. However, Jellyfish, I think, shows you can have the serious and thoughtful, but in a lighter package.