The Weeknd's first feature film is a surrealist vanity project, writes Music Writer Maria Sherman. “Hurry Up Tomorrow” features the musician playing a fictionalized version of himself. He's

Abel Tesfaye, the singer and sometime actor (“The Idol”) better known as the Weeknd, has called “Hurry Up Tomorrow” a “love letter” to his fans in an interview with the New York Times. Tesfaye, as he’s credited here, co-wrote the movie, and also produced it, stars in it and, with Daniel Lopatin, composed the music for it.