Kristen Stewart & Steven Yeun in ‘Love Me’ Sci-Fi Romance Trailer
by Alex Billington
January 1, 2025
Source: YouTube
“What does it feel like to be alive?” 🛰 “Have you ever considered how impossible it is that we found each other? Bleecker Street has revealed an official trailer for the indie sci-fi romance creation titled Love Me. This initially premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival last year to mixed reactions – I’m a big fan of the film, or at least what it’s trying to say and teach us about identity. Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy and a satellite inherit the Earth, and with only the internet as their guide, learn what it means to be alive and in love. In this first feature from Sam & Andy Zuchero, Love Me explores AI and identity through live-action, animatronics, and classic animation in an epic tale of connection and transformation. “We wanted to make a movie that would make you feel big and small at the same time… It’s the story of two completely new beings — the A.I. in two machines — who evolve into virtual avatars and then into flesh & blood humans.” Starring Kristen Stewart as the buoy and Steven Yeun as the satellite. Here is my full review if you’re curious to know why I dig it as a story about how social media isn’t really that good for our identities. Enjoy.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Sam & Andy Zuchero’s film Love Me, direct from YouTube:
Via Sundance: “Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love. As filmmakers Sam & Andy demonstrate in their wildly imaginative debut feature, telling the love story of a smart buoy and an orbiting satellite that spans a billion years and probes the mysteries of being and consciousness requires legit storytelling dexterity. Love Me’s whimsically philosophical, shape-shifting structure ingeniously weaves together the real, the virtual, and the surreal. Its star-crossed, web-paired metallic protagonists — inhabited in different forms by Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun — awkwardly navigate romance and companionship, equipped only with untold petabytes of archived web data, social media, and online videos.” Love Me is co-written & co-directed by filmmaking husband-wife duo Andrew “Andy” Zuchero & Sam Zuchero, directing their first feature film together after a few short films and other projects previously. It’s produced by Kevin Rowe, Luca Borghese, Ben Howe, Shivani Rawat, & Julie Goldstein. This first premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival last year (our review). Bleecker Street debuts Love Me in select US theaters starting January 31st, 2025 coming soon. Look any good? Who’s in?
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