Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun are star-crossed AI lovers in the first trailer for their upcoming film Love Me.
Stewart and Yeun play a curious buoy and a helpful satellite learning about Earth, humanity and life itself, long after humans have gone extinct. From the internet and old YouTube videos, the two robots forge a friendship and discover “what it means to be alive and in love” in a post-apocalyptic world.
The robots use artificial intelligence and digital avatars to mirror a couple they observed through old YouTube videos, finding their true selves along the way. “I’m not even a buoy anymore,” Stewart’s character says in the trailer. Yeun later remarks, “We’re becoming who we are.”
“Basically, the internet — the knowable universe — is contained in this machinery, and [our characters] start trying to figure out how to date,” Stewart explained in Rolling Stone’s March 2024 cover issue.
The film will be in theaters on Jan. 31, more than a year after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.
Written and directed by couple Sam and Andy Zuchero, the duo told People that the inspiration behind the movie was themselves. “It’s about how distant we feel right now and how everyone wants so desperately to connect,” they said. “Love Me became a mirror for who we pretend to be and who we really are.”
From Rolling Stone US
