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Cinematography | Germain McMicking |
Edited by | Joseph Krings |
Music by | David Longstreth |
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Running time | 92 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Love Me is a 2024 American post-apocalyptic romance film written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero in their feature directorial debuts, starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun.
A postapocalyptic romance[2] in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.[3]
The film is directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, in their feature length debut.[4] In October 2021, Stewart revealed that she was going to be in a “sci-fi love” story with Steven Yeun.[5] Stewart described it to Entertainment Weekly as "a love story between a satellite and a buoy; it's hard to explain. I hope I don't botch it, because it's a really revolutionarily written script."[6]
The film won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.[7] The award was accompanied with a $25,000 cash prize, supplied by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Added Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director of the Foundation—"We are delighted to honor Sam and Andy Zuchero's Love Me, an original and wildly imaginative film about the nature of human identity and our connection to each other in a post-human world mediated through artificial intelligence."[8]
The film premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024.[9]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 50% approval rating, with an average rating of 5.60/10, based on 36 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun are appealing leads, but Love Me's admirable narrative reach exceeds its grasp."[10] On Metacritic, the series holds a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[11]