Today we’ve got a treat for you, by way of this rather charming indie sci-fi trailer for the film Love Me, starring Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart.
Released today by Bleecker Street, the trailer looks like the film is set to be a really interesting and feel-good watch, following a buoy and a satellite at a time where no humans are left on Earth. Instead, they’re left to discover themselves, and what love is (or could be) from the many, many videos we left behind.
According to the official description:
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.
Watch the official trailer below:
Here’s what Zucheros had to say about the film:
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.
I think they very well might have achieved just that! Well, based on the trailer, at least. It’s not often I watch something I had even heard about and feel warm and fuzzy, but this… is definitely doing something to me.
Love Me actually had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival a year ago. Now, finally, it’s set to be released on 31st January in the United States – still waiting on confirmation for a UK release date!
What do you think of the trailer for Love Me – had this one been on your radar? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
