[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to screen digitally for critics.] Few SXSW attendees in 2011 would have expected that Dave Boyle's likably shambling Surrogate Valentine would ever get the sequel treatment.
But there was Daylight Savings the next year, another Austin premiere that followed Valentine's struggling songwriter (Goh Nakamura, playing a version of himself) through the romantic uncertainties of life on the road.
Nine years after the first installment, Boyle has handed the reins to actor Lynn Chen, who reprises her role in the trilogy while writing and directing I Will Make You Mine, the presumably final installment.
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