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Movie Overview
Cast
• Sarah Adler
• Nikol Leidman
• Gera Sandler
Director
• Shira Geffen
• Etgar Keret
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Theatrical Release
Apr 04, 2008 (Limited)
Jellyfish (2008)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh
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B+
"A film of miniature treasures...a lyrical picture, not forceful. Give it some time, and it's almost sure to get under your skin."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

3/5
"conjures up a handful of winsome delights in its brief running time"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

"While the scene announces the film's intensive focus on water -- a sign of transition, loss and rebirth -- it is also a sign of its stylized poetry, sometimes lovely, sometimes precious."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

"Its seventy-eight minutes are dense and resonant, a weave of stories related by theme, plot and beachfront location."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Donald J. Levit

3/5
"An imaginative Israeli film about loneliness, missing persons, and the value of truly being present with others."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

"Very unusual, but very likeable and quite colorful, as well."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

6/10
"We get a mix of comedy, tragedy, and some mysticism. The stories are strange and offbeat and just matter-of-factly seem to drift into magical realism."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

2/4
"Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage."  Slant Magazine  Paul Schrodt

1/5
"Although it runs 78 minutes, it feels like 78 hours. This is a Jellyfish with no sting."  Film Threat  Phil Hall

B-
"...an intricate weaving of the separate lives of its three [femme]principals. Their story is told with an intelligent understanding of the characters"  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

8/10
"A wonderfully complex exploration into people's attempts to control the fates and their own discovered strengths in the wake of illusory failure."  Monsters and Critics  Ron Wilkinson

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh
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