Love Me movie storyline. An extinction event has made the Earth a very empty place, so when a solar-powered “smart” buoy (Kristen Stewart) powers back on after many years, it doesn’t have anyone to make contact with. Until, that is, it wirelessly connects with a passing orbital beacon (Steven Yeun) that happens to be serving as “humanity’s tombstone.”
The beacon contains a complete archive of human history and experience, and in accessing it remotely, the buoy finds itself flooded with information about the lifeforms that once occupied this planet — information that triggers an evolution in consciousness, one which eventually inspires the beacon’s own self-awareness. Eventually, the buoy (now known as Me) and the beacon (taking on the name Iam) are able to interact in the virtual realm — and a truly strange and beautiful love story begins.
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. Awash in these mediated experiences and fabricated expressions of love and identity, they yearn to understand who they are, whether their feelings are real, and for that matter, whether they are real.
Directed by: Sam Zuchero, Andy Zuchero
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Steven Yeun
Screenplay by: Sam Zuchero, Andy Zuchero
Production Design by: Zazu Myers
Cinematography by: Germain McMicking
Film Editing by: Joseph Krings
Costume Design by: Angela Ganderton
Set Decoration by: Janessa Hitsman
Art Direction by: Rick Willoughby
Music by: David Longstreth
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Bleecker Street
Release Date: January 19, 2024 (Sundance Film Festival)
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