Alma, a workaholic who seems to relish the solitary life, doesn’t exactly embrace the assignment. Alma (Maren Egert) is an established scientist at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum working on a complex research project about ancient cuneiform when she agrees to a bizarre experiment: Spend three weeks with a robot humanoid named Tom ( Dan Stevens) who has been built by a mysterious company to be her ideal mate. In that respect, “I’m Your Man” is only sci-fi in the flimsiest sense, and seems less invested in epistemological questions than the way they speak to its protagonist’s soul-searching malaise. “ I’m Your Man,” the winsome, somewhat listless but often insightful new romance from German director Maria Schrader, inverts that formula: A machine may provide the ideal companion, but that very question for perfection is part of the problem.Īctor-turned-director Schrader, who last handled Netflix’s breakout miniseries hit “Unorthodox,” has once again made a movie about one woman learning to come to terms with her greater potential. The concept of human-robot love has provided fertile ground for sci-fi storytelling, from Data in “Star Trek” to the disembodied voice of “Her” all the way through “Ex Machina” and “Wandavision,” because it presents an obvious paradox: No amount of engineering genius, it seems, can design the perfect mate. Bleecker Street releases the film in theaters on Friday, September 24. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival.
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