Love Me Like You Hate Me is a beautifully choreographed dance between Margaret Qualley and Shia LaBeouf. We are presented with two alternative viewpoints at the same time, showing the dual nature of the protagonists and the two contradicting themes: love and hate. The camera work is flawless and takes us right into the action. The earthen color palettes of both scenes add to the mood and work almost like a photo negative.
Margaret Qualley and Shia LaBeouf both present us with honest, captivating, fearless and self confident performances. The acting is fitting and well paced. The beauty of Margaret Qualley is only eclipsed by the film itself.
The sound work is perfect as well, starting with breathing and an electric organ, which seamlessly transitions into the beautiful song "Love Me Like You Hate Me" by artist Rainsford (Rainey Qualley).
The short film and the song are an ideal match, letting me wonder which one was first conceived.
The film ends again with breathing as well as the electric organ, expressing the circular nature of the film.
For me this short film is about finding happiness in relationships even when life is hard sometimes and director Luke Turner couldn't have done a better job. 10/10
7 Reviews
a gem
Kirpianuscus19 November 2020
The fair word for define it remains special. Against the ambiguity of the term. It is just a profound beautiful film about love and hate, about need of the other and about desire of solitude, about violence and touches , about precise and delicate definition of life. Margaret Qualley is extraordinary, grace for her clear beauty , first, and Shia LaBeouf gives a great surprise to his public. Yes, itis a dance and the impecable choreography remains one of the basic virtues of this authentic gem.
Moving beyond words
iruneatpizza7 March 2021
I have no idea what I just watched..
MovieCriticOnline27 February 2021
Normally I would give anything I didn't like ONE star, but there is enough craftsmanship to give it 4 stars. It was literally 10 minutes of the same repeated love dance over and over again. There is no story. if you enjoy abstract art without a story then you may like this. I just think we live in a world today where people PRETEND to like things, or believe they are pressured into liking things that are on its face not very good. Perhaps it is a reflection of the ever increasing human disconnect and living artificial lives online.
I was far more interested in the music that was playing along which I found out was Rainsford, Margaret Qualley's sister, who played the co-lead next to Shia.
It was essentially a 10 minute music video, but could have been 3 minutes without losing the spirit of it. Maybe I would have given it more stars. It would have been even better had it ended with learning one of the characters had died or left the other one and it was about lost love or something. Something, ANYTHING, would have been better than the repetitiveness.
I was far more interested in the music that was playing along which I found out was Rainsford, Margaret Qualley's sister, who played the co-lead next to Shia.
It was essentially a 10 minute music video, but could have been 3 minutes without losing the spirit of it. Maybe I would have given it more stars. It would have been even better had it ended with learning one of the characters had died or left the other one and it was about lost love or something. Something, ANYTHING, would have been better than the repetitiveness.
Words Can't Do It Justice
nrgigaba12 January 2021
Love Me Like You Hate Me is a beautiful short film that calls video hosting, sharing, and services platform Vimeo home.
Margaret Qualley & Shia LaBeouf share with us an emotive and electric choreography that is beyond words.
This film is truly a gem.
This film is truly a gem.
Once is enough
Horst_In_Translation22 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This is "Love Me Like You Hate Me", a ten-minute live action short film from 2020, October 2020 to be precise, so the outcome here is only three months old now. The director is award-winning filmmaker Luke Turner and he has worked with actor Shia LaBeouf on several occasions in the past. You can check out his body of work if you care what they collaborated on. Many hashtags included. No surprise anyway that LaBeauf also plays the male protagonist in this mix of movie and music video. The song we were listening to by the way did not really do a lot for me, so I will not elaborate on it any further. It wasn'd bad either though, but I doubt it will still be in my ears and head a few days from now. Probably almost nothing from this one will be. The female part here is played by Emmy-nominated actress Margaret Qualley. A bit of an unlucky name as the word "Qualle" in German means jellyfish. She is nothing like that though. Very stunning young woman. The fact that you see literally everything from her body at the very start, but also later on, may be the reason why this is too explicit for Youtube. Go to Vimeo. Intercourse is also implied and we see LaBeauf constantly naked too, even if they did his best to hide his genital. The scene on the bed is okay and the shower scene is also pretty nice. Cannot lie there as a heterosexual male.
By the way, they used a split screen here for this one. One half on top, the other below. I did not like this creative choice very much, but I can see why it's vital for the tale with the acting in the top half basically being right there where it was at the start in the bottom half. And is again in the end for the bottom half as well, namely with the two lying on bed together having sex. Between this identical opening and closure, there is a lot more action and movement going on though. This is again where the music video component comes into play. It is all choreographed and the arguments the characters are having are displayed in an exaggerated form that feels like from a stage play or ballet performance. So there we have another parallel to what LaBeouf did in this video with Maddie Ziegler (and Sia). Cannot lie that I like that one a little more than this one here. But who knows, maybe this one will also grow with time, even if I doubt it a bit. The one thing that cannot be said here is that the protagonists took a nice risk here. Shia continues his path of slightly unusual, but inspired career choices, while Qualley went fully naked down to her pubes here, which is always a bold move for any actress. But then again, let's be honest here: She 100% has the body for that.
Now I see Labeauf and Qualley were a couple at one point, most likely also when this got made. This may explain it and I wonder if they ended up together before or after this one. Okay, that is all then. It's a tolerable watch at times, but overall it could not win me over, which had least as much to do with the song where the lyrics feel a bit empty to me as well as with the slightly pretentious video. I am glad it was this short. Thumbs down. Not recommended, even if was a by no means a bad watch. Just not good enough.
By the way, they used a split screen here for this one. One half on top, the other below. I did not like this creative choice very much, but I can see why it's vital for the tale with the acting in the top half basically being right there where it was at the start in the bottom half. And is again in the end for the bottom half as well, namely with the two lying on bed together having sex. Between this identical opening and closure, there is a lot more action and movement going on though. This is again where the music video component comes into play. It is all choreographed and the arguments the characters are having are displayed in an exaggerated form that feels like from a stage play or ballet performance. So there we have another parallel to what LaBeouf did in this video with Maddie Ziegler (and Sia). Cannot lie that I like that one a little more than this one here. But who knows, maybe this one will also grow with time, even if I doubt it a bit. The one thing that cannot be said here is that the protagonists took a nice risk here. Shia continues his path of slightly unusual, but inspired career choices, while Qualley went fully naked down to her pubes here, which is always a bold move for any actress. But then again, let's be honest here: She 100% has the body for that.
Now I see Labeauf and Qualley were a couple at one point, most likely also when this got made. This may explain it and I wonder if they ended up together before or after this one. Okay, that is all then. It's a tolerable watch at times, but overall it could not win me over, which had least as much to do with the song where the lyrics feel a bit empty to me as well as with the slightly pretentious video. I am glad it was this short. Thumbs down. Not recommended, even if was a by no means a bad watch. Just not good enough.
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