'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time': Film Review
1/22/2021 A lovesick brain surgeon questions her grasp on reality in Hungarian director Lili Horvat's cryptic Oscar contender. A cerebral mystery thriller told by an unreliable narrator in a fugue of emotional dislocation, writer-director Lili Horvat's Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time puts a lightly feminist spin on classic screen tropes about hysterical wronged women driven by romantic obsession and fatal attraction. Selected as Hungary's official submission to the Academy Awards, this haunting slow-burn psychodrama is superbly acted and quietly gripping, despite so...