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Release Date:
March 1, 2001
Original Title:
Valentine's Day Girl
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Electronic Arts Intermix
RISD
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 7
Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. Trecartin's collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, plays a girl obsessed with Valentine's Day. Everything in her hyperactive, sped-up world revolves around Valentine's Day: red, white, and pink love-themed decorations cover every surface; heart shapes abound; Valentine's Day treats are everywhere. Her private festivities suddenly go awry as a hoard of Christmas-themed intruders appear and take her hostage in her own apartment. Gagged and bound, she is forced to watch while her ecstatic but sinister captors stage a frenzied Christmas intervention.
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