This is one of those "HolyJaysusWhatTheFugDidIJustStumbleAcrossAt12:45InTheFreakin'Morning" finds...
imdb link:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0807721/
Synopsis:
Pix:The tone of the piece is firmly trumpeted in the opening two shot scene showing a young couple about to separate, each hesitant but nevertheless determined to go their own way. On the soundtrack, a Hebrew version of Piaf's La Vie En Rose sarcastically comments on how life can be.
The rest of the film is there to prove this point. Batia (Adler), who has just broken off with her boy friend, lives in a miserable over-priced rented flat, waits tables, feels unloved and distraught and is neglected by her divorced parents (Fabian and Dayan), each of who is trying to compensate for the absence of love in their lives.
One day, a practically naked little girl (Leidman) with huge, luminous eyes walks smiling out of the sea and straight into Batia's arms. Their bizarre relationship triggers a number of unexplained events and by the end of the film, when the little girl marches back into the sea, the secret behind Batia's gloom is fully revealed (not that it was that much of a secret before).
In a separate story, the honeymoon of Keren (Knoller) and Michael (Sandler) is disrupted when the bride accidentally locks herself in the toilet and twists her ankle trying to get out. Once her leg is in a plaster, she is taken by her husband to a frustratingly unromantic hotel by the beach.
In a third episode, Joy (de Latorre), a Filipino who doesn't speak a word of Hebrew, is hired to take care of an older woman (Harifai), whose daughter, Galia (Ben Yaakov), an aspiring actress, can't find the time nor the patience to deal with her parent.
Having one of her characters admit during the course of the film that she does not like developments may explain Geffen's tendency to paint states of mind rather then tell stories. Astute rather than deep, her script shows enormous sympathy for certain characters, but fails to flesh out the others beyond a basic outline, with Batia's episode more elaborate and successful than the other two.
Luckily the co-directors never allows the proceedings to linger for too long in one place and manage to elicit from their cast a number of finely tuned performances, which carry the script through some of its more arid patches.
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'Official movie site':
http://www.jellyfish-derfilm.de/start.htm
Trailer:
http://www.wejew.com/media/1005/Jellyfi ... e_Trailer/
Ok... While not exactly a 'coming-of-age' movie; a young girl seems to play a pivitol role in part of the film AND there's some somewhat OT scenes with her...
Looking forward to this one coming out!
kev.
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