Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun‘s new film is out of this world.
On New Year’s Day, Bleecker Street dropped the trailer for the Oscar-nominated duo’s sci-fi love story Love Me, in which Stewart plays a buoy and Yeun plays a satellite. Yes, you read that correctly.
Written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero in their feature-length debut, Love Me is a post-apocalyptic romance about a buoy, Me, and a satellite, Iam, who meet online, fall in love, and decide to take human forms as Deja and Liam, respectively, and learn what it means to be alive.
“Life — it’s full of rainbows and light. It’s intense,” Deja says in the trailer. “I’m not even a buoy anymore. I am just me.”
“We’re becoming who we are,” Liam adds.
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Love Me premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, which is given to a feature that focuses on science or technology. The film blends live action, animation, and animatronics to tell, per the logline, “an epic tale of connection and transformation.” The award, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize, recognized Love Me “for its ambitious and formally inventive portrayal of a post-human Earth in which two machine-learning ‘life forms’ search for the cure to loneliness in the digital rubble of civilization, and for its original direction and engaging performances.”
In October 2021, Stewart told Entertainment Weekly that the film is “hard to explain.” “I hope I don’t botch it, because it’s a really revolutionarily written script,” she said.
Love Me, which is produced by ShivHans Pictures, 2AM, and AgX, hits theaters Jan. 31.
