Jellyfish (Meduzot)

Directors: Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret
Starring: Sara Adler, Gera Sandler, Noa Knoller, Asi Dayan
Year: 2007

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 at her own wedding, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine woman who works as a private caretaker for the elderly, and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

Comments: Skillfully and sensitively weaves through the complexity modern Tel Aviv life

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