Foreign Film Screening—Jellyfish | Westfield Memorial Library, Westfield, NJ

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 14, 2009 under Archived | Be the First to Comment

Where: Westfield Memorial Library, 550 E Broad St, Westfield, NJ 07090
Date: October 20, 2009
Time: 2:00pm–4:00pm

Features: Open to All

Website: http://www.wmlnj.org/

Jellyfish is a 78-minute long 2007 Israeli film which also won the 2007 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, directed by Shira Geffen and her husband, Etgar Keret, is about three women in Tel Aviv and gives a picture of life in Israel.

The film follows three distinctive women as they struggle through their lives in modern Tel Aviv. Batya (Sarah Adler) is a catering waitress whose problems include a dissolving relationship, a soul-sucking job, a trunk full of mommy and daddy issues, and the unexpected responsibility of caring for a mute waif (Nikol Leidman) who emerges out of the sea and lands in her life. Keren (Noa Knoller) is a beautiful young bride who breaks her foot at her wedding reception — her Caribbean honeymoon is replaced by a dissatisfying stay at a local hotel. Lastly, there is the ironically named Joy (Ma-nenita De Latorre), an English speaking Filipino wracked with guilt because she has left her five year-old son in her native land while she scratches out a living as a personal nurse to the elderly who insist on speaking Hebrew to their uncomprehending aide. [via] | [via]