Israeli co-directors
Etgar Keret and
Shira Geffen's ensemble comedy drama
Meduzot (aka
Jellyfish,
2007) weaves together multiple seriocomic tales of intersecting lives,
set against the deep azure backdrop of Middle Eastern seascapes.
Affording equal emphasis to each tale,
Keret and
Geffen first hone in on Batya (
Sarah Adler),
a young woman employed as a caterer, whose firm places strongest
emphasis on weddings. As the film opens, Batya breaks up with her
boyfriend, and struggles with her supremely dysfunctional, argumentative
parents, who correspond with her only by leaving periodic messages on
her answering machine. Her life takes a most unpredictable turn when she
happens upon a tearstained little girl (
Nikol Leidman)
who wanders out of the ocean, wearing only a pair of panties and toting
an inner tube -- origin unknown. The foundling gravitates magnetically
to Batya and refuses to separate from her.
