[2] Dana, a young American woman, is engaged to her business partner Alex, and they are renovating an old building into a boutique hotel.

At a restaurant she is approached by an older woman who strikes up a conversation, saying that she is a French Jewess who returns regularly to Jerusalem, but prefers to stay at a hotel in Tel Aviv.

He offers to make her engagement ring smaller, but while he is busy she sees a man lurking outside, and tries to follow him, thinking that somehow he is connected with the lady.

Her friends are planning extensions to their house, and their architect and his wife (Claire) have also come to stay to work out the design.

There are huge scenes of distress, but Dana's mother phones from LA to tell her that her father has been admitted to hospital.

Dana realizes he was the American GI, and asks whether he really loved the French stranger, and whether he regretted not marrying her.

Then Dana notices a painting of Sean's and realises that it is of the strange lady she met in Jerusalem, wearing the two pins.

Dana tells him that she was the woman she met in Jerusalem who gave her the brooch, but he says that would not have been possible, as his mother has been dead for years.

[3] Empire gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, remarking that it is; "An honest look at the concept of love, as previously sold to us by the movies.

"[4] The Los Angeles Times warmly praised the film comparing it favourably with others, "it has the easy elegance and verve of an Astaire-Rogers musical" and remarked that it "represents a new level of accomplishment for Jaglom".

[5] However, Steven Gaydos of Variety magazine felt the initial connection between the main characters "deprives the film of any tension, while the leads never supply the heat or chemistry that would at least partially sell the well-worn notion of Unstoppable Love that propels the storyline....'Deja Vu' proves that even passion ordained by the gods can’t overcome a commonplace script, stock characters and ordinary direction.