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Several stories, or scraps of stories, are woven together in the making of Jellyfish ("Meduzot"), linked by common themes and a shared sense of humor, poetry and loss.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The film’s spirit is refreshingly playful and sweet.
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Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall
The overlapping stories pulse with a tidal rhythm, the film's sensibility flowing between serious and wry, and there are memorable turns from Assi Dayan as the waitress's henpecked dad and Tzahi Grad as a cop with a nonchalant attitude toward babysitting.
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An Israeli movie with neither politics nor religion--and only one casual, if fraught, mention of the Holocaust--bespeaks an underlying desire for normality that's as poignant and fantastic as Keret and Geffen's modest, shabby Tel Aviv settings.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Marvelously inventive, often-ironic Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret and his life- and workmate, Shira Geffen, spin in Jellyfish a dreamy, arty, alluringly cockeyed tale involving three unrelated women in Tel Aviv.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Not for all tastes, but produces haunting juxtapositions.
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Jellyfish is the kind of film that will ring true for some viewers, while striking others as too slight and precious.
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Although it runs 78 minutes, it feels like 78 hours.
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There's enough material here for a miniseries, but the directors keep the proceedings to 78 brisk minutes without making the viewer feel cheated.