Deborah Ross

Spellbinding: Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time reviewed

Ignore the unsnappy title – this gripping, simmering, sometimes mysterious Hungarian noir is hypnotic

Spellbinding: Natasa Stork as Marta in Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

The premise for the unsnappily titled Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is this: a Hungarian neurosurgeon meets a fellow Hungarian neurosurgeon at a medical conference, falls in love, and gives up her shiny life and career in America to be with him in Budapest. They had agreed to meet on one of the city’s bridges.

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