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'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time': Film Review

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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 some minor plot wobbles and that cumbersome title, which Horvat borrowed from an early 1970s underground theater play.

Premiered to politely positive reviews in Venice and Toronto last year, the film launches digitally in the U.S. this Friday, Jan 22.

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