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‘I’m Your Man’ Review: Love Debugged


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A German archaeologist agrees to date a robot in exchange for funding.

 

Tom, the gent of the title in Maria Schrader’s delightful “I’m Your Man,” is a looker like you’ve never seen. He’s good-looking for sure, as played by Dan Stevens, a British actor speaking German in a German-language sci-fi romance. But he also looks, looks, looks with preternatural intensity at everyone and everything he encounters. It’s because Tom is a robot, a learned machine that keeps on learning. He has been programmed—not quite flawlessly, it turns out—to be the man women dream of, assuming their dreams involve someone who is charming, endlessly considerate and exceptionally smart. (Tom’s database consists of 17 million human mindfiles.) Ms. Schrader’s film will bring to mind others with related themes—my mindfile immediately flags “Lars and the Real Girl,” “Her” and Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.” That’s fine, though. There’s always room for a new take on our all-too-human need for love, or, failing that, companionship, and this one, playing in theaters, is a particularly wise and witty example. 

The story starts forthrightly in a club where Alma ( Maren Eggert ) meets her android for the first time. An archaeologist working at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, she’s more pragmatic than romantic, having agreed to test the robot for three weeks in exchange for funds for her research project on Persian cuneiform tablets. (The unnamed company rep who makes the introduction is played by Sandra Hüller, who was extraordinary as the human but robotic heroine of Maren Ade’s 2016 “ Toni Erdmann. ”) Tom is engaging, almost relentlessly so, and he rumbas like a stereotypical Latin lover, but he does require some fine-tuning. Once that’s taken care of he shows up at Alma’s apartment, his few possessions in a little suitcase and his algorithms revved up for the single purpose of pleasing her.

The filmmaker, Ms. Schrader—she directed four episodes of the TV miniseries “Unorthodox”—worked with Jan Schomburg on adapting the screenplay from a short story by Emma Braslavsky. The result is rich in ironic detail and terrific performances, including Wolfgang Hübsch’s portrayal of Alma’s aged, disoriented father. We know Alma will resist Tom’s charms only up to a point, but the surprise, or succession of surprises, is how intricate and intimate their relationship becomes, and what it says about being made of flesh and blood.

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Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens

Photo: Bleecker Street

“I’m Your Man” is a movie about a woman—Tom is a device, albeit a superb one—that was made by a woman clearly determined to create a heroine of authentic complexity. Alma’s research concerns elements of poetry she claims to have found in cuneiform tablets that served as official documents. The film is poetic in its turn, as well as deliciously funny, and pretty much perfect except for a slightly didactic coda. But that’s a minor flaw in a major achievement. To err, even slightly, is you know what.

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