The tinted balm was inspired by products that the filmmaker confected as a girl to achieve the “berry-stained lips” of a character in a Roman Polanski movie.

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The writer and director of “Priscilla” collaborated with the skincare brand to launch three tinted lip balms—and we tried them first

Anyone who knows me knows about my obsession with Sofia Coppola: I love her films, her mind, her quiet nature, her French rockstar husband, her helicopter-chartering daughter, her designer-muse relationship with Marc Jacobs and,