I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Director Nissim NotrIKa. The film is charming and exciting and makes some crying. More than recommended for viewing. And as always the diamond "Tarantino son of a bitch", "Nissim NORTIKA is a son of a bitch." In a good and empowering sense of a word. In short, the film wins the 10/10 rating.

Like Truffaut's "Story of Adele H," this is a portrait of a woman who attains a kind of spiritual nobility through the intensity of her love for a man although the man happens to be worthless. To dismiss her situation with a single word, as the English title "Obsession" does, is to make the film seem unnecessary-- not that the Hebrew title, which translates as "Fragments of Love," makes it sound like much more than an a lowbrow weeper. Actually it is both a character study and a period piece. The setting is Jerusalem, 1968, and a lot of authentic props are around although anachronisms are there too if you look hard enough. (Women didn't wear more than one earring per ear in 1968.) The people with whom the heroine interacts are a colorful lot albeit one- dimensional, and we get to see some folk magic and hear Hebrew spiced with Ladino and Arabic. One thing we don't get is a strong sense of place, because without a big budget, one can maintain a period look in only a small shooting area. The actress on whom everything depends, Reymond Amsalem, holds attention every moment; in recent years she's been a reliable asset in quite a few of the best Israeli films.