Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Hungarian director Lili Horvát’s beguiling psychological thriller, about a neurosurgeon who uproots her life to rendezvous with a colleague in Budapest after a brief liaison, plays in the pitch of Truffaut and Hitchcock. Horvát takes palpable pleasure in conjuring an uncanny world of ghosts, drawing visual inspiration from the photography of Saul Leiter: the film is beautifully shot on 35mm by cinematographer Róbert Maly and hauntingly accompanied by Gábor Keresztes’s sparse score.
Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Benett Vilmányi
- Notes From Ed LachmanWriter-director Lili Horvát’s seductive psychological drama is about memory, love and desire. Horvát, who also made 2015’s THE WEDNESDAY CHILD, creates a seductive and beautiful film about a Hungarian neurosurgeon, Márta Vizy, who is proficient in understanding diseases that affect the brain but is unable to interpret the mysteries of her own mind. In the end, love itself may be our neurological disorder. Cinematographer Róbert May and Horvát’s images, arrestingly shot in 35mm, become more hidden and obscured through shadows, light and framing that composes the female protagonist Márta’s illusions and challenges us to solve the labyrinth of her experience.