Kristen Stewart enjoys exploring registers and thinking outside the box in ever more destabilizing films. After the poetic Equals (2015), romance with Shakespearean accents, and the lesbian film Love Lives Bleeding (2024), the actress returns to science fiction in Love Me. Directed by Andy et Zuchero himselfthe feature film depicts the love story of a robot and a buoy years after the extinction of humanity. The trailer has been revealed, and it is already shaking up our certainties.
The disturbing trailer for Love Me
Presented at the 2024 Sundance Festival, the brothers’ film Zuchero reveals itself as a post-humanity romance. At first glance, the idea is special but the trailer remains convincing. Love Me offers a contemporary vision of romance where robots seek to feel emotions. A paradox, isn’t it? While humanity as such has completely disappeared, an ocean buoy and a space satellite attempt to create intimacy. These entities meet in a digital world and will adopt a different identity to evolve their relationship. Kristen Stewart et Steven Yeun are here the final result of the experiment.
Thus, the film rethinks the question of interactions but also the notion of love in a dehumanized space. Is it possible for machines to know the particularities of feeling? Via the live-action and animation, the duo of directors creates a world from scratch whose images impact the retina like a video game. At the heart of this artificial universe, only popular culture and modified images have their place. However, the two characters will debate universal subjects leaving the impression of a philosophical dialogue in the age of artificial intelligence. Not yet scheduled in France, Love Me already promises to be thrilling.
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