TRAILER: Love Me Stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as AI Machines

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The first trailer has been released for what could be 2025's most unconventional love story.

Love Me is a post-apocalyptic romance starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun. Only they don't play people - they play objects. More specifically, a satellite and a buoy respectively.

Equipped with advanced AI, the two characters notice each other from thousands of miles away and begin a dialogue that blooms into unlikely love. Along the way, they're able to peer at the remnants of humanity left all over the Internet and imagine how their lives could have been.

According to the official synopsis, "Long after humanity's extinction, a buoy (Kristen Stewart) and a satellite (Steven Yeun) inherit the Earth, and with only the internet as their guide, learn what it means to be alive and in love. In this groundbreaking first feature from Sam and Andy Zuchero, Love Me explores AI and identity through live-action, animatronics, and classic animation in an epic tale of connection and transformation."

What is the story for Love Me?

Stewart described the script for Love Me in an interview with Entertainment Weekly as "really revolutionarily written." It's set, says Stewart, long "after we're all dead. It's like the earth is freezing over, and the trace that we have left behind is the internet. And the overriding idea behind the movie is that this buoy, myself — Me is the name of the character — is everything we left behind. Which is kind of just, 'Look at me, look at me, love me, love me, love me,'" she explains. "So this satellite pings, and we connect. And I'm just trying to give him all the information I have of what we as humans have left behind."

Love Me reviews

The reaction has been so far mixed, however. The film actually premiered behind-closed doors roughly one year ago, in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024.

After watching it, critics were free to post early reviews, which are now listed on Rotten Tomatoes. It just a 47% approval rating, based on 51 critic reviews, which is fairly dismal. "Disappointing in its curiously narrow gaze and clunky emotional exposition," writes Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair.

There are positive reviews too, though. Tasha Robinson of Polygon writes, "It's a daringly weird debut, executed with real style and vision. It's an oddity that's bound to appeal to fans of similarly strange high-concept love stories."

Love Me releases in theatres January 31, 2025.