Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

"What sets this film apart is its fusing of the impassioned and the grimly palpable."

"Lili Horvát's film delights in wallowing in ambiguity, contradiction, and doubt."

"A classy feminist take on stalker thriller tropes."

"A sober and guileful meditation on love, obsession, and perception."

""Preparations" manifests its protagonist's uncertainty through fluttering reflections and slinky shadows, and images that conceal and obscure the full picture."

"The reveal isn't equal to the buildup. Yet you've still had the experience of being taken in -- much more in a good way than a bad one -- by a gifted filmmaker wielding cinema's seductive power."

"A beautiful and acute rendering of what could be if some of the most implausible lies we tell ourselves were in fact true."

"Sadly, the reveal here is quite banal, which retroactively makes the film as a whole play like a prolonged, unsatisfying tease."

"A lovely visit to a Budapest that yields its secrets more willingly than the sad, repressed woman at the story's center."

"Here is a puzzle or a riddle of a psychological movie, with distant echoes of Roeg's Bad Timing or Antonioni's Blow-Up."

"Echoing its clashing tones of red and blue, this is an unexpectedly warm film with a chilling premise."

"Horvát explores how romantic fantasy can be a projection based on slender evidence, but it isn't no evidence at all."