Blue Lips (film)

Blue Lips
Film poster
Directed byMalia James
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Jeff Kopchia
  • Tiffany Suh
Starring
CinematographySy Turnbull
Edited byChris Roebuck
Distributed byUniversal Music Group
Release date
  • 19 October 2018 (2018-10-19)
Running time
25 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Blue Lips is a 2018 short film co-produced, co-written and starring Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo. The film was released on YouTube and Vevo on 19 October 2018,[1] and features ten songs, nine from Lo's third studio album, Blue Lips (2017), and one from her second studio album, Lady Wood (2016). It was directed and written by Malia James with Lo working on the screenplay as well while Nathan Scherrer and Laura Haber served as executive producers.

Unlike Fairy Dust, one of Lo's previous short films, Blue Lips featured parts of the songs instead of using them completely, also it mixes a diegetic and non-diegetic use of the songs. The film centers around friends Ebba (played by Lo) and Kit (played by Ana Coto) as they party after the latter suffers a heartbreak.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Tove Lo on Twitter".
  2. ^ Spanos, Brittany (19 October 2018). "Watch Tove Lo's Tale of Female Friendship in 'Blue Lips' Short Film". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Tove Lo explores sexual awakenings in new short film 'Blue Lips'". NME. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.