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  • 2021
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2021
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary After 20 years in the United States, Márta, a Hungarian neurosurgeon, returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous with a fellow doctor she met at a conference. When the love of her life is nowhere to be seen, she tracks him down only to have the bewildered man claim the two have never met.

Directed By: Lili Horvát

Written By: Lili Horvát

  • 2021
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2021
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
71
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Summary After 20 years in the United States, Márta, a Hungarian neurosurgeon, returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous with a fellow doctor she met at a conference. When the love of her life is nowhere to be seen, she tracks him down only to have the bewildered man claim the two have never met.

Directed By: Lili Horvát

Written By: Lili Horvát

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100
Mar 19, 2021
The second feature by Hungarian writer-director Horvat plays in the thin space between love, madness and consciousness. There are pleasing overlaps with Alain Resnais’s Je T’aime Je T’aime and An Affair to Remember, but Preparations is unique.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
88
Jan 18, 2021
Lili Horvát’s film delights in wallowing in ambiguity, contradiction, and doubt.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 21, 2021
This crystalline tale of memory, love and brain surgery from writer-director Lili Horvát (who made 2015’s The Wednesday Child) is a treat – sinewy, seductive and beautifully strange.
By Mark Kermode FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 29, 2021
What sets this film apart is its fusing of the impassioned and the grimly palpable.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
67
Jan 22, 2021
Preparations successfully trades narrative authority for a more provisional path, and much like its main character, remains wholly enigmatic.
By Josh Kupecki FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 2, 2021
The pacing and lack of incident may detract from the overall emotional investment we have for Horvát’s latest, but in its construction of a murky intrigue, composed visual style and Stork’s exceptional performance, there’s enough to make the journey home to Budapest a worthwhile visit.
By Matthew Anderson FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 16, 2020
Preparations inspires intrigue, then curiously squanders it.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Poste Restante
Release Date Jan 22, 2021
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/felkeszules/
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Awards

Valladolid International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Fantasporto
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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