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'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time' is a 2020 Hungarian drama film directed by Lili Horvt. The film concerns a doctor who leaves her life in the United States to return home to Budapest after falling in love with another doctor, but he claims never to have met her before. It was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot



At a conference in New Jersey, accomplished neurosurgeon Mrta has an encounter with fellow doctor Jnos. The brief meeting convinces Mrta that he is the love of her life, and the two arrange a second meeting at the Liberty Bridge in Budapest in one month's time. Quitting her job in America and returning to her native Hungary, Mrta is shocked when Jnos does not arrive at their meeting spot. Heading to Budapest Medical University to confront him, the man she identifies as Jnos tells her that the two have never met before.

Deciding to stay in Budapest, Mrta rents a run-down apartment and takes a job at the hospital Jnos works at. There, she draws ire from her colleagues due to her attitude and tendency to offer alternative diagnoses of the hospital's patients. She becomes obsessed with Jnos, watching old videos she can find of him on YouTube and following him after work. She begins to see a therapist as she starts to doubt whether the initial meeting took place, and seeks a personality disorder diagnosis.

While operating on a patient, Mrta grows irritated with one of her fellow surgeons and asks that Jnos takes over from him. The two are formally introduced, and Mrta is invited to Jnos's book release that evening. She returns home with a copy of his book and begins to masturbate after reading from it.

The son of Mrta's earlier patient offers to buy her dinner a thanks for her help. He tries to invite himself into her apartment afterwards, but she rejects him. She finds a message in her office from Jnos asking to talk; the two go shopping together and he offers to buy her a loudspeaker for her apartment. Jnos later visits her apartment and the two have sex, but in the morning he is nowhere to be found.

Helen, a friend and colleague of Mrta's from New Jersey, visits her in Budapest. Helen convinces Mrta to try calling Jnos, but when she does Helen finds his jacket and phone inside Mrta's apartment. Mrta returns the item to the Budapest Medical University, then secretly follows Jnos home. She quickly leaves when the door is answered by a young woman who says that she is Jnos's daughter.

Jnos tries to visit Mrta but cannot access her apartment. He confesses that he did remember their meeting in New Jersey but did not think the arrangement to meet again in Budapest was serious; he also tells her that he is afraid of upsetting his relationship with his daughters as a single father. In the morning, Jnos and Mrta watch as two delivery men hoist a loudspeaker up to Mrta's apartment.

Cast



* Natasa Stork as Vizy Mrta

* Viktor Bod as Drexler Jnos

* Benett Vilmnyi as Alex

* Zsolt Nagy as Krivn Barna

* Pter Tth as Pszichiter

* Andor Lukts as Dr. Fried

Reception



Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film approval rating based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "Its title may be unwieldy, but 'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time' looks at the nature of love with commendable clarity." According to Metacritic, which sampled 12 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, the film received "generally favorable reviews".

Accolades

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| Chicago International Film Festival

| 25 October 2020

| Gold Hugo Award in New Directors Competition

| Lili Horvat

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| Independent Spirit Awards

| 22 April 2021

| Best International Film

| 'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time'

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See also



* List of submissions to the 93rd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film

* List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

References




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