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| Directed by | Sam Zuchero Andy Zuchero |
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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 premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024. [7] In May 2024, it was announced that ShivHans Pictures, which co-produced the film, would release the film in the United States with Bleecker Street with WME Independent acquiring international sales rights to sell at the Marché du Film. It will be released theatrically on January 31, 2025. [8]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 47% approval rating, with an average rating of 5.80/10, based on 51 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." [9] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [10] The film won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. [11] The award was accompanied with a $25,000 cash prize, supplied by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It is one of the many prestigious Sloan Science in Film Awards.
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." [12]
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