The 12 months’s Most Distinctive Sci-Fi Love Story Lastly Has a Trailer

You typically hear individuals say “You’ve by no means seen something like this,” however within the case of the new movie Love Me, it’s really true. Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star because the human avatar variations of a buoy and a satellite tv for pc who fall in love lengthy after humanity has ended. Are you able to even image what that’s? It virtually sounds faux, does it not?

The movie premiered on the Sundance Film Festival last year and is lastly getting a launch later this month on January 31. Meaning, all 12 months, I’ve needed to try to explain this profound, original movie to individuals with simply the image you see above. Now, lastly, the movie has a trailer that does an awesome job of displaying its full, bold, scope.

“The brand new film Love Me takes place over 10 billion years and stars solely two actors who don’t play people,” I wrote in my 2024 review. “It’s half nature movie, half animation, half stage drama, and extremely bold and dense each in scope and theme. Written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, it’s a movie that makes an attempt to seize the complete scope of celestial existence in a decent, 90-minute package deal, whereas additionally letting a contemporary viewers expertise it in a really particular means. Does all of it work on a regular basis? No. But it surely works most of the time, and you may’t take your eyes off it since you are continuously in awe of what you’re seeing, for any variety of causes.”

So, mainly, it’s real-life Wall-E, advised in numerous mediums, with two unbelievable actors.

As I mentioned within the evaluate, Love Me doesn’t wholly work, however it’s so distinctive, bizarre, candy, and thought-provoking, it’s exhausting to not be enamored with it. Make checking it out a part of your 2025 plans. It comes completely to theaters January 31.

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