Two years after he starred in and co-created the much-derided HBO original series, "The Idol," Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd, is back with a new, ambitious visual project, "Hurry Up Tomorrow." The film,

The Weeknd's first feature film is a surrealist vanity project, writes Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman.

In Trey Edward Shults' thinly drawn portrait of the artist, it would appear both star and subject is trading old indulgences for new navel-gazing.