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PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME – Review by Diane Carson

January 28, 2021January 31, 2021 Diane Carson greenwich entertainment, hungarian films, Lili Horvát, Natasa Stork, Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time

The intriguing title suggesting an unusual, challenging film will follow, Hungarian director Lili Horvát’s Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time delivers on that promise. For the first image on screen is the last stanza of Sylvia Plath’s poem, Mad Girl’s Love Song, in which the speaker wonders if “I made you up inside my head.”

Festivals Reviews

PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME (TIFF20) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 8, 2020September 13, 2020 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 0 Comments hungarian films, Lili Horvát, Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time, TIFF, toronto international film festival

Plot-wise, Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time is a film almost temptingly easy to reveal too much about, which in a movie where the process of discovery is the central point would significantly remove many of the elements that make it so intriguing. Eschewing typical cliches, what we discover here instead is a neurological exploration of the crush-turned-romantic-obsession that pivots around the subjectivity of falling in love