What is Love Me (2025) all about? Everything to know
Love Me is an upcoming cosmic love story written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun. Produced by ShivHans Pictures, it explores the connection between love and the cosmos. Co-released by Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures, the film will have a US theatrical release on January 31, 2025.
Premiering earlier at Sundance, it earned critical acclaim and won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize for its focus on science and technology themes. Represented internationally by WME Independent, its global distribution began at Cannes.
With a star-studded cast and a unique narrative, the movie is a compelling addition to the sci-fi romance genre.
Everything to know about Love Me
Love Me is finally going to bring the cosmic love story to theaters across the country on January 31, 2025. The live-action and animation movie was written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, and Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun lead the cast, whose story anchors their roles as animatronic machines who grow into human beings over billions of years.
The production boasts a collaborative team of artists and storytellers, with ShivHans Pictures, 2 AM, and AgX leading its creation. The film’s producers include Kevin Rowe, Luca Borghese, Ben Howe, Shivani Rawat, and Julie Goldstein, with Daniel Bekerman, Christine D’Souza Gelb, and Connor Flanagan serving as executive producers.
This marks another exciting partnership between Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures, following previous successful collaborations such as Golda and The Wedding Banquet.
Plot of Love Me
Love Me is a unique cosmic love story that combines live-action and animation. It follows Me (Kristen Stewart), a lonely buoy pretending to be a life form to attract IAm (Steven Yeun). Inside her system, Me imitates a human influencer named Deja and convinces IAm to be her boyfriend, Liam. While the animation is visually interesting, some may find the romance dull and repetitive as it unfolds through a series of similar date nights.
Me’s entire journey is about self-discovery as they uncover the history of life on Earth, their bond deepens, and they explore what it means to be alive and in love. The story covers billions of years and eventually develops into a deep story of identity and connection.
The film raises many questions, exploring what it means to be alive and whether living a life that isn’t truly your own makes it inauthentic. It asks if being alive is about repeating actions and routines until emotions eventually feel real. It questions if life is so unoriginal that AI can only mimic influencers. The central idea revolves around what AI can truly understand about being alive.
The relationship between Me/Deja and IAm/Liam struggles to break free from a cycle of repetition and misunderstandings, leaving little room for deeper exploration. Their interactions often feel mechanical, as they try to build a connection from nothing. Even when they stop imitating, they still follow the patterns of another couple. Despite moments of self-discovery, the film suggests they remain trapped in imitation, reflecting what they believe life and relationships should be.
Watch Love Me releasing on January 31, 2025.
