As far as love stories go, there’s none more abstract than the premise for the upcoming “Love Me.” This new sci-fi drama follows a buoy and a satellite who meet online and fall in love in a post-apocalyptic setting where humanity has gone extinct. Earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, actress Kristen Stewart, who headlines the film with co-star Steven Yeun, offered her interpretation of the movie that took home the Alfred P. Sloan Film Feature Prize, an award given to a movie that focuses on science or technology as a theme.
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“The movie jumps the throat of identity. It really jumps down the throat of trying to affix any feeling we have to a word or identifier, a flag, a stake. Every five minutes, we can just flip flop, and the overriding echo if we were to just sort of inhale the Internet, if we were to all just die right now and our footprint was this sort of echo of disparity, I would be proud of that… It’s a movie about identity and having that change every 30 seconds, every split second, just the words affixed to it, the sort of feelings and the images affixed to identity. They’re ever-changing.”
Clearly, this is a hard movie to describe. It has to be seen and understood. Audiences will get their wish when it arrives at the beginning of next year.
Starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, “Love Me” is written and directed by first-time filmmakers Sam Zuchero and Andrew Zuchero. Producers include Luca Borghese, Julie Goldstein, Shivani Rawat, and Kevin Rowe. Danie Bekerman and Christine D’Souza Gelb are executive producers.
“Love Me” is a science fiction film following a romance that blossoms between a satellite and a buoy many years after the end of humanity. It explores the concept of love and what it means to be alive and part of a community in a lonely and desolate setting.
Synopsis:
A post-apocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.
Bleecker Street will release “Love Me” in theaters on January 24.
