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Jellyfish Review

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4.5

Dave White Profile

… doesn't beat you over the head with its indie quirks … Read full review

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  • 4.0
    67

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    I have an aversion to such intricately interlocked movies as "Babel" or "Crash" -- for all their pretensions and astral connections they're basically stunts -- and my feelings about Jellyfish are much the same. But this film is handsomely made, and I won't soon forget the almost Jungian image of a wide-eyed child -- emerging from the sea with a red and white lifesaver around her little belly.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    The film's spirit is refreshingly playful and sweet.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    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.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    These stories have as their justification that fact that they are intrinsically interesting. I think that's enough.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety

    Tightly constructed, cleverly stylized, serio-comic ensemble piece. Highly cinematic, with a mood of existential loneliness leavened by magical whimsy, its different story strands share themes including the need for affection and the struggle to communicate.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Yes, Jellyfish says, it's a wonderful life, not in that old-fashioned style we've perhaps tired of but in a surprising new and magical way all its own.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly 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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4

A ship inside a bottle cannot sink... by Daydream
I had no idea what to expect going in, but came out pleased that I took the time to see this underrated film. Jellyfish is a simple, artistic and lonely foreign film with substance. Each character is "eternally in despair" where every bad situation gets worse. It is a somewhat depressing movie one can surely relate to with a very impressive ending. If you like foreign films dont pass this one up.

5

"Eternally in Despair" by israeli_art_is_for_real
Beguilingly enigmatic Interweaving the stories of three women Whose experiences feel both surreal and very human As in the review above, a simple and lonely film I have just left the theater, and I wish I could watch it a second time, in order to absorb it all

4

by Claire_H

4

Jellyfish just floats along beautifully by Wynn_Willow
It is a story without any action. Thoughtful, but not provocative. Lingers but entertains. Subtilted and sublte

3

by universeeye

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