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In the opening scene of this film, the camera holds on a card depicting the Virgin Mary and a phone number covered in droplets of blood. Police open a garage door in this film to reveal a lifeless hand holding a cigarette hanging out a car window. A surreal debutante party at the end of this film themed around asphyxiation is tinted a heavy (15[1])green and features attendees in gas masks. In one scene, this film superimposes a (*) twinkling star over the eye of the female lead and features hand-drawn introductions to the central characters in a series of freeze-frames. This film’s synth-heavy score was composed by the French duo Air, and the soundtrack features Heart’s “Magic Man” in a montage introducing Trip Fontaine. During a party early in this film, Cecilia Lisbon jumps out of her window and is impaled on a fence. For 10 points, name this 1999 adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides novel, a film by Sofia Coppola. ■END■

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